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Prayers
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Genesis 2:9,17
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O Lord, we confess that we still eat forbidden fruit through our sins, even
though You have warned us that it is the fruit of death. Forgive us, O
Lord, and feed us from the tree of life,
whose firstfruit is the resurrection of Your Son from the dead.
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Genesis 3:7,21
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O Lord, we confess that we have sinned against You, and that our efforts to
cover our sins are as ineffective as the fig leaves which Adam and Eve sewed
to cover their nakedness. Clothe us instead, O Lord, with Christ,
as symbolized by the innocent animal which You slew to make tunics of skin
to clothe Adam and Eve.
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Genesis 3:8
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O Lord, we confess that we have sinned against You, and that we are tempted
to try to hide our guilt from You, even as fallen Adam and Eve tried to hide
from You among the trees of the garden.
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Genesis 3:12-13
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We confess, O Lord, that we have sinned against You, and that we are tempted
to blame our sin on others or on circumstances, even as fallen Adam blamed
Eve for his sin, and Eve blamed the serpent for hers.
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Genesis 17:1
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We confess, O Lord, that You are Almighty God, and we have not always walked
before You in blamelessness as we ought.
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Genesis 35:2
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O Lord, we confess our sin before You, for we have not completely put
away our false gods, nor completely purified ourselves from our idolatries,
nor completely discarded the sinful habits in which we once lived as if they
were our daily
dress. O Lord, we are not worthy to approach You in worship nor deserving
to draw near to You in prayer.
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Exodus 19:6
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We also confess our sins, for we have often failed to live as those whom You
have made to be to Yourself a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
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Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 14:2
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O Lord, You are holy, and You have commanded us to be holy, for You have
separated us from the peoples of this world, that we should be Yours, even
Your special treasure above all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
Yet, O Lord, we continue to sin and to defile ourselves.
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Deuteronomy 8:11
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We confess, O Lord, that we at times forget You, the LORD our God, by not
keeping Your commandments, Your judgments and Your statutes.
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Deuteronomy 30:2
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O Lord, we confess our sin, for we want to return to You, the Lord our God,
and obey Your voice, according to all that You have commanded us and our
children, with all our heart and with all our soul.
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1 Kings 8:60-61
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O Lord our God, even though we know in our hearts that there is no other,
yet we have not always been loyal to You to walk in Your statutes and to
keep Your commandments.
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Ezra 9
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O God, we are ashamed and blush to lift our faces to you, our God, for our
iniquities have risen higher than our head, and our guilt has mounted up to
the heavens.
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Psalm 1:2
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We do delight in Your law, O Lord, in Your revealed will, in the Bible.
Forgive us for the times in which we have not meditated upon it. Forgive us
for the times when its message has not guided and enriched our thoughts.
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Psalm 5:4
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We confess our sins, O Lord, for You are not a God who takes pleasure in
wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.
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Psalm 11:4
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O Lord, we confess our sins. You are in Your Holy temple, and Your throne is
in heaven. Yet Your eyes behold and Your eyelids test the sons of men. We
can hide nothing from You, O Lord, not even our thoughts.
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Psalm 32:3,5
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O Lord, we confess that we have sinned against You. We confess, for when we
kept silent, our bones grew old through our groanings all the day long. We
acknowledge our sin to You, and our iniquity we have not hidden.
We said, "We will confess our transgression to the Lord!"
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Psalm 37:7-8
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Yet, O Lord, sometimes we do fail to wait patiently for You, and we fret
because of the wicked who prosper and pose a threat to us. We sometimes sin
through an anger which causes only harm.
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Psalm 51:5
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O Lord, we confess our sin. We have been sinners from the very beginning of
our existence; for we were brought forth in iniquity, and in sin our mothers
conceived us.
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Psalm 82:5; Proverbs 4:19
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O Lord, apart from Your grace, we walk about in darkness and do not know
what makes us stumble. We sin against You in thought, word and deed.
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Psalm 100:3
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O Lord, You are God, and You have made us and not we ourselves; we are
Your people and the sheep of Your pasture. Forgive us, O Lord, when we have
strayed from Your paths and not followed You as our Shepherd.
Forgive us, O Lord, when we have lived our lives as if we had created
ourselves and were our own.
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Proverbs 3:7
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O Lord, we confess our sins. We confess those times in which we have been
wise in our own eyes and thus did not fear You, the Lord our God, nor depart
from evil.
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Proverbs 28:13
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O Lord, we confess our sins, because he who covers his sins will not prosper,
but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
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Isaiah 2; Jeremiah 31
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O Lord, Your law has gone forth out of Zion and Your word from Jerusalem.
You have taught us Your ways that we might walk in Your paths.
You have written Your law on our hearts and made obeying Your revealed will
our deepest desire. Yet indwelling sin still taints all that we think, say
and do.
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Isaiah 5:20-21
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We confess our sins, O Lord, for at times we become wise in our own eyes and
prudent in our own sight. We call evil good and good evil. We put darkness
for light and light for darkness. We put bitter for sweet and sweet for
bitter.
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Isaiah 55:2
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We confess, O Lord, that we at times seek our innermost satisfaction apart
from You and apart from the Christ. We spend money for what is not bread,
and our wages for what does not satisfy.
We do not listen carefully to Your gracious offers, and thus we do not eat
what is good, and our soul does not delight itself in Your abundance.
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Jeremiah 2:22
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Though we want to please You, O Lord, and to walk in Your statutes, yet we
do sin against You daily. We transgress Your law in heart, speech and
behavior. We cannot wash away our sin, O Lord.
Though we wash ourselves with lye and use much soap, yet our iniquity is
marked before You, O Lord.
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Jeremiah 5:22-23
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O Lord, You have placed the sand as the boundary of the sea, by a perpetual
decree, that it cannot pass beyond it. And though its waves toss to and fro,
yet they cannot prevail; though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it.
We should fear You, O Lord, and tremble at Your presence. Instead we revolt
against Your law and depart from Your statutes, the boundaries which You
have placed around us.
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Jeremiah 5:23
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O Lord, though our hearts are full of Your praise, yet we still hear the
call of temptation and feel the lure of sin. Apart from Your grace, our hearts
would be defiant and rebellious,
and we would have joined the ranks of those who have revolted against You
and departed from You.
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Jeremiah 23:23-24
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O Lord, we confess our sins to You, for we cannot hide them from You. You are
a God near at hand and not afar off. You fill heaven and earth, and we
cannot hide in secret places so that You will not see us.
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Jeremiah 30:12-13
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O Lord, we confess that our sins are an incurable affliction and a severe
wound There is no one to plead our cause, that we may be bound up; we have
no healing medicine.
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Ezekiel 14:1-8
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O Lord, we are tempted to set up idols in our hearts, idols which cause us
to stumble into iniquity. O Lord, seize us by the heart and recapture us
lest we separate ourselves from You and be estranged from You by our idols,
such that You set Your face against us and cut us off from Your people. We
repent of our idolatries, O Lord. We turn away from our idols and turn our
faces from all our abominations.
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Matthew 6:10
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Father, we confess that we fail to do Your will here on earth as it is done
in heaven, where Your holy angels know, obey and submit to Your will in all
things without delay and without question.
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Matthew 9; Isaiah 53
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O Lord, we are weary and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd. We like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way.
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Luke 15:11-19
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Yet, O Lord, when we sin against You, we are like the prodigal son who left
his father's house and went into a far country. We are not worthy to be
called Your children, and we perish with hunger, while all in Your house have
bread enough
and to spare.
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Luke 15:18-19
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Father, we confess our sins. We cry out with the prodigal son, "Father, we
have sinned against heaven and before You, and we are no longer worthy to
be called Your sons."
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John 17; Romans 14:15
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We confess, O God, that we Your people have fallen short of the pattern and
example of holy love found in the triune Godhead. We are not one as You
are one.
We have too often failed to walk in love with our brother for whom Christ
died.
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John 20:25
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O Lord, we confess our unbelief, for we are at times like Thomas when he
said, "Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger
into the print of the nails, and put my hand into His side, I will not
believe."
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Romans 1:21
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O Lord, we confess that although we know You, we do not glorify You or
thank You as we should. There is still futility in our thoughts and
foolishness in our hearts.
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Romans 1:25
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O Lord, we confess that at diffent times and in various degrees we
exchange Your truth for the lie, and we worship and serve this world which You
have created rather than You, the Creator who is blessed forever.
We sin when we try to find meaning and definition and purpose and happiness
totally apart from You.
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Romans 5:12,19; Genesis 5:3
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We confess, O Lord, that our forefather Adam fell into sin, and that we his
children sinned in him and fell with him. We were begotten in his sinful
image and after his sinful likeness,
and we daily follow his sinful example by transgressing Your holy laws.
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Romans 7:17; Isaiah 53:6
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Yet, O Lord, we do at times err and stray from Your ways like lost sheep.
We do at times follow the devices and desires of the sin which by Your grace
no longer lords it over us but does still dwell in our hearts.
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Romans 7:19,23-25
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O Lord, we confess that sin still dwells within us and wars against the law
of our mind such that we practice the evil which we will not to do. O
wretched people that we are! Who will deliver us from this body of death?
We thank You, O God, for our deliverance through Jesus Christ our Lord!
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Romans 7:22-23
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O Lord, we delight in Your revelation according to the inward man, but we
see another law in our bodily members, warring against the law of our mind
and bringing us into captivity to the law of sin.
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Romans 8:7
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O Lord, we confess that we still have within us a remnant of that carnal mind
that is enmity against You, that is not subject to Your law, nor indeed
can be. We confess that we sin against You daily in our thoughts, in our
words and in our
deeds.
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Romans 5:18-19
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Yet, O Lord, our forefather Adam sinned. Through one man's offense, judgment
came to all men, resulting in condemnation; and by one man's disobedience,
many were made sinners.
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1 Corinthians 3:3
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We confess, O Lord, that we are at times, even as a church, caught up in
envy, strife and divisions; for we can still be carnal, and we at times behave
like mere men rather than the new creation which we are in Christ Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 15:17
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O Lord, we need this saving, redeeming work of atonement, for we sin against
You in thought, word and deed and daily earn Your just judgment and
righteous indignation.
And if Christ be not risen, then our faith is futile and we are still in our
sins. But, O Lord, He is risen, and the tomb where they laid His body is
empty.
mpty.
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Ephesians 2:2
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Forgive our sins, O Lord, for we once walked according to the course of this
world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now
works in the sons of disobedience.
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Ephesians 2:2
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Because You have delivered us from our sins, O Lord, we no longer walk
according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience.
Yet we still in this life disobey Your commands at times, and we never in
this life obey Your commands with a perfectly sinless heart.
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Ephesians 4:17-18
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O Lord, we confess that we do at times still walk as those walk whose minds
are still in futility, whose understanding is still darkened, who are alie
nated from the life which comes from fellowship with You
because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their
heart.
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Ephesians 4:31-32
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We confess, O Lord, that we do not always follow the example You gave us
when You forgave us in Christ. We are not always kind to one another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another. At times, we fail to put away from us
all sinful malice
and the resulting bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor and evil speaking.
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Colossians 1:21
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O Lord, we confess that we were once alienated from You by our sins, that we
were once hostile to You in our thoughts, that we were once engaged in
wicked works.
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Hebrews 3:12-13
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We confess, O Lord, that we are at sundry times and in various ways hardened
through the deceitfulness of sin, and that we must be wary lest there be
in us an evil heart of unbelief that departs from You, the living God.
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Hebrews 11:25
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O Lord, we confess that we at times have lacked the faith to esteem the
reproach of Christ as greater riches than the treasures of this world.
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2 Peter 2:19
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O Lord, we freely confess that we were slaves of corruption, overcome by
our sins and brought into bondage.
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1 John 1
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Father, we know that if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and
the truth is not in us. We freely confess, O Lord, that we have sinned in
thought, word and deed; in heart, speech and behavior; in thinking, speaking
and doing.
We also rejoice, O God, that you have promised that if we confess our sins,
you are faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness.
We who now confess our sins with contrite hearts ask you to pardon us for
the sake of Christ and His perfect sacrifice.
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1 John 4:11; Matthew 18:33; Ephesians 4:32;5:1
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Father, we know that if You so loved us, then we also ought to love one
another. As You have had pity on us, we ought to have compassion on one
another.
As you have forgiven us in Christ, we ought to bear with one another and
forgive one another. Forgive us, O Lord, for the many times we have failed to
imitate You as dear children.
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