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Isaiah 43:26

Put me in remembrance: let us contend together: state your case, that you may be proved right.
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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215
And it is ours to flee to God. And let us endeavor after this ceaselessly and energetically. For he says, “Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” And prayer and confession with humility are voluntary acts. Therefore it is enjoined, “First tell your sins, that you may be justified.” What afterwards we shall obtain, and what we shall be, it is not for us to judge. - "Fragments 11.3"

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Thyself. God condescends to act thus with men, chap. xli. 20., and Osee iv. 1.

Jerome

AD 420
We are just when we acknowledge that we are sinners, and our justice depends not on our personal merit but rather on the mercy of God, as holy Scripture says: “The just is an accuser of himself in the beginning of his plea.” And in another place, “State your sins, that you may be justified.” - "Against the Pelagians 1.13"

John Chrysostom

AD 407
Do you wish that I shall speak of the ways of repentance? They are many and various and different, and all lead to heaven. The first way of repentance is condemnation of sins. “First declare your sins, that you may be justified.” - "Concerning the Power of Demons 2.6"

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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