Then I will tell them plainly ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, [you] workers of lawlessness!

Therefore everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father in heaven.

so much that he promised with an oath to give to her whatever she asked.

I tell you, everyone who confesses Me before men, the Son of Man will also confess him before the angels of God.

He did not refuse to confess but openly declared “I am not the Christ.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed [Jesus] [as the] Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Nevertheless many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess [Him], for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue.

For [the] Sadducees say [that] there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but [the] Pharisees acknowledge them all.

I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus [is] Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from [the] dead, you will be saved.

For with [your] heart [you] believe [and are] justified, and with [your] mouth [you] confess [and are] saved.

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called [when you made] the good confession before many witnesses.

They profess to know God, but by [their] actions they deny [Him]. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.

All these [people] died in faith, without having received the things they were promised. However, they saw [them] and welcomed them from afar. And they acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

Through [Jesus], therefore, let us continually offer to God [a] sacrifice of praise, [the] fruit of lips that confess His name.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, [but] whoever confesses the Son has the Father as well.

By this you will know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses [that] Jesus Christ has come in [the] flesh is from God,

and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the [spirit] of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and [which] is already in the world at this time.

If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.

For many deceivers have gone out into the world, refusing to confess the coming of Jesus Christ in [the] flesh. Any such [ person ] is the deceiver and the antichrist.

Like [them], he who overcomes will be dressed in white And I will never blot out his name from the Book of Life, [but] I will confess his name before My Father and His angels.