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Nave Topical Bible
• Confession
Thompson Chain Reference
• Confessions, Seven
• Confession-Denial, Christ
• Confession of Sin
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The Topic Concordance
• Confession
Torrey Topical Textbook
• Confession of Sin
• Confessing Christ
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• General Confession, the
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Confession
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Confess, Confession
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Savoy Confession
• Faith, Confession of
• Confession of Faith
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CARM Theological Dictionary
• Confession
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Confession
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Confession
Spurgeon's Illustration Collection
• Hypocritical Confessions
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Confessions and Credos
• Confession
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Confession
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Confession (of Sin)
• Confession (of Christ)
• Confession
King James Dictionary
• Confession
• Confessing
• Confessed
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Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Confession
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Westminster Confession
• Seal of Confession
• Sea, Confession at
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Confess, Confession
• Confess
Webster Dictionary
• Confession
• Confessing
• Confesser
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Confession
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Confession
• Confession and Avoidance
• Confession of Augsburg
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Confession
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Approbation, Episcopal, for Confession
• Augsburg Confession
• Auricular Confession
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Augsburg Confession
• Confessions of Faith
• Confessions of Rousseau
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Confession
• Lay confession
• The Law of the Seal of Confession
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Confession of Sin
Lexicons
• ܝܕܐ
• ܬ݁ܰܘܕ݁ܺܝܬ݂ܳܐ
• Paromologia; or Confession
• ἐξομολογέω
• ὁμολογέω
• ὁμολογία
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• זָכַר זָכַר, , מַזְכִּיר
• יָדָה , יָדָה
• נָגַד
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CONFES'SION, n.

1. The acknowledgment of a crime, fault or something to one's disadvantage open declaration of guilt, failure, debt, accusation, &c.

With the mouth confession is made to salvation. Romans 10 .

2. Avowal the act of acknowledging profession.

Who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. 1 Timothy 6 .

3. The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest the disburdening of the conscience privately to a confessor sometimes called auricular confession.

4. A formulary in which the articles of faith are comprised a creed to be assented to or signed, as a preliminary to admission into a church.

5. The acknowledgment of a debt by a debtor before a justice of the peace, &c., on which judgment is entered and execution issued.