To acknowledge or (by implication, of assent) agree fully
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G1843 describes open acknowledgment or full agreement and can express confession of sin, public assent, agreement to a promise, or praise directed to God. The content and object of the acknowledgment determine whether English should render the verb confess, admit, promise, or praise; no single gloss fits every occurrence.
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G1843 describes open acknowledgment or full agreement and can express confession of sin, public assent, agreement to a promise, or praise directed to God. The content and object of the acknowledgment determine whether English should render the verb confess, admit, promise, or praise; no single gloss fits every occurrence.
The BSB source-word alignment has 10 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include Confessing (3), confess (2), I praise (2), [Judas] consented (1), I will praise (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 3:6. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (2), Matthew (2), Romans (2), Acts (1).
G1843 describes open acknowledgment or full agreement and can express confession of sin, public assent, agreement to a promise, or praise directed to God. The content and object of the acknowledgment determine whether English should render the verb confess, admit, promise, or praise; no single gloss fits every occurrence. In Matt. 11. 25, jesus openly praises the Father as Lord of heaven and earth for revealing what was hidden from the self-wise.
In Jas. 5. 16, james joins mutual confession of sins with prayer for one another in a community seeking healing and restoration. G1843 opens teaching on speech that brings truth into the open before God and neighbor, including confession, praise, covenant acknowledgment, and public allegiance. It corrects both secretive spirituality that refuses accountable truth and coercive confession practices that demand unsafe disclosure, spectacle, or institutional self-protection.
G1843 keeps acknowledgment relational and content-specific: Jesus praises the Father, James joins mutual confession with prayer, and Paul cites the promise that every tongue will confess God. For G1843, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable. The verb does not authorize forced testimony, public naming of every private sin, or words detached from repentance, justice, worship, and changed allegiance.
G1843 appears across passages that develop truthful confession, praise, public acknowledgment, shared prayer, accountability, and allegiance to God. For G1843, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.
Jesus openly praises the Father as Lord of heaven and earth for revealing what was hidden from the self-wise.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
James joins mutual confession of sins with prayer for one another in a community seeking healing and restoration.
It is written: “As surely as I live, says the Lord, every knee will bow before Me; every tongue will confess to God.”
Paul cites Scripture to affirm that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess to God.
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How English Renders ItA compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
Greek word. Confess sin or praise God—public acknowledgment that honors the object of confession, not mere private admission.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
11 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 9 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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G1843 keeps acknowledgment relational and content-specific: Jesus praises the Father, James joins mutual confession with prayer, and Paul cites the promise that every tongue will confess God. G1843 describes open acknowledgment or full agreement and can express confession of sin, public assent, agreement to a promise, or praise directed to God. The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: Matt.
11. 25 Shows that jesus openly praises the Father as Lord of heaven and earth for revealing what was hidden from the self-wise. , while Jas. 5. 16 shows that james joins mutual confession of sins with prayer for one another in a community seeking healing and restoration.. Rom. 14. 11 adds that paul cites Scripture to affirm that every knee will bow and every tongue will confess to God..
G1843 opens teaching on speech that brings truth into the open before God and neighbor, including confession, praise, covenant acknowledgment, and public allegiance. It corrects both secretive spirituality that refuses accountable truth and coercive confession practices that demand unsafe disclosure, spectacle, or institutional self-protection. A church teaching G1843 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support.
The verb does not authorize forced testimony, public naming of every private sin, or words detached from repentance, justice, worship, and changed allegiance.
Matt.11.25
G1843 is a Greek compound verb that intensifies acknowledgment or agreement; middle forms often describe openly confessing or praising, and the complement identifies the confessed person, act, or truth.
The Psalms and prophetic writings join confession of sin with praise of Gods name and works. The New Testament uses G1843 within that broad scriptural movement while centering final acknowledgment on God and the lordship of Christ.