Forgive Our Sin

We, our families and our ancestors have sinned and fallen short of Your Glory, and are justified by Your Grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Our iniquities have made a separation between us and You, and our sins have hidden Your face from us so that You have not heard.

We are confessing our sins, the sins of our families, the sins of our ancestors and the sins of all connected to us by blood, marriage or adoption. We believe You are faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. In repentance, we turn back to You, that our sins may be blotted out - help us not to perish. Help us to confess and forsake all our sins, including any we may have forgotten, bring them to our remembrance so we may obtain Your mercy.

As we confess and repent for every sin below, or any other sin known and unknown, on behalf of ourselves, our ancestors and our bloodlines, we simultaneously renounce and denounce all evil acts we thought, committed or spoke against You via this sin, and break every covenant we knowingly or unknowingly came into with the kingdom of darkness via these sins.

[Confess any known sins]

Exodus 20:

Having other gods before You and misusing Your Name
Making ourselves images in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below
Bowing down to and worshipping other gods or following worthless idols
Dishonoring, disobeying, striking or cursing our parents
Murder, adultery, theft, false testimony, covetousness

Leviticus 18-20:

Abortions, child sacrifices and any blood sacrifices
Fornication, homosexuality, incest, bestiality and all sexual relations that are abominable to You
Leaving nothing for the poor to eat, taking advantage of the poor, deaf, blind and underprivileged
Defrauding neighbors or employees, showing favoritism and partiality and endangering anyone's life
Sharing in our neighbors' guilt, bearing grudges and mistreating foreigners
Practicing divinations and seeking omens, mediums or spiritists
Cuttings, markings, rituals or traditions honoring the dead

Deuteronomy 14-16, 22 & 27:

Not giving, offering and tithing wherever we should have
Not lending or giving the poor sufficient for what they need
Not giving cheerfully and not opening our hands wide to our brothers
Perverting justice and taking advantage of the less fortunate
Withholding justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow
Moving our neighbor's boundary stones
Crossing genders in any way You detest
Any guilt of bloodshed on our houses
Not purging the evil from among us

Proverbs (abominations to God):

Justifying the wicked and condemning the righteous
Crooked, arrogant, and haughty hearts
Unequal weights, unequal measures and false balances
Shedding innocent blood or accepting bribes to shed innocent blood
Proud looks, lying tongues, hearts that have devised wicked imaginations, feet that have been swift in running to mischief, false witness and wherever we've sown discord among brethren

Isaiah 1 / Jeremiah 2:

Rebelling against You, forsaking You and being corrupt
Observing worthless assemblies and festivals and bringing vain offerings
Defiling Your land and making Your inheritance detestable

Romans 1:

Suppressing the truth by our wickedness
Knowing You and not glorifying You as God nor giving thanks to You
Operating in futile thinking and with foolish darkened depraved minds
Exchanging the glory of the immortal God for any idol
Sexual impurity, seduction, dishonorable passions and inflammation with lust
Degrading our bodies and the bodies of others
Greed, envy, strife, deceit, malice, gossip, slander, insolence, arrogance, boastfulness
A lack of understanding, fidelity, love or mercy
Approving of those who practice sin

1 Corinthians 6:

Theft, greed, drunkenness, revelry, and swindling

Galatians 5:

All works of the flesh that have been abominable to You including enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, rivalries, dissensions and divisions

2 Timothy 3:

Being lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, and having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power

1 John 2:

The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, which come not from You but from the world

[Confess other known sins]

Father, in Jesus' Name, we reason with You, so that though our sins are like scarlet, let us become as white as snow, though our sins are red like crimson, let us become like wool.

We ask for Your forgiveness for all these sins. We renounce and denounce all evil acts we thought, committed or spoke against You via these sins. We break every covenant we knowingly or unknowingly came into with the kingdom of darkness via these sins. We break any curse and bond of captivity that came upon us because of these sins, and we cast out any evil spirit that came upon us through these sins.

In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the second in the Trinity, the Son of God the Creator of all things.

Amen.

Other Scriptures Used

Romans 3:23-24

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 59:2

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Acts 3:19

Repent, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.

Luke 13:3

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

1 John 1:9

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

Proverbs 28:13

Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Isaiah 1:18

Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.