#proverbs 28:13

• 2 Chronicles 7:14

If My People who are called by My Name will Humble Themselves, and Pray and Seek My face, and Turn From Their Wicked Ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

• Proverbs 28:13

He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and Forsakes Them will have Mercy.

• Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 18:21 את Cepher

by Charles Spurgeon

Uncover and Confess Sin

Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy. - Proverbs 28:13

Here is the way of mercy for a guilty and repenting sinner. He must cease from the habit of covering sin. This is attempted by falsehood, which denies sin; by hypocrisy, which conceals it; by boasting, which justifies it; and by loud profession, which tries to make amends for it.

The sinner’s business is to confess and forsake. The two must go together. Confession must be honestly made to the LORD Himself, and it must include within itself acknowledgment of the wrong, sense of its evil, and abhorrence of it. We must not throw the fault upon others, nor blame circumstances, nor plead natural weakness. We must make a clean breast of it and plead guilty to the indictment. There can be no mercy till this is done.

Proverbs 28:13