Luke 15:18

I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned ¹  against heaven ²  and against ³  you.

Le 26:40,41; 1Ki 8:47,48; 1Ki 20:30,31; 2Ki 7:3,4; 2Ch 33:12,13,19; Job 33:27,28; Job 36:8-10; Ps 25:11; Ps 32:3-5; Ps 32:5; Ps 51:3-5; Ps 116:3-7; Pr 23:13; Isa 63:16; Jer 3:19; Jer 31:6-9; Jer 31:20; Jer 50:4,5; La 3:18-22,29,40; Da 4:26; Ho 2:6,7; Ho 14:1-3; Jon 2:4; Jon 3:9; Mt 3:6; Mt 6:9,14; Mt 7:11; Lu 11:2; Lu 15:21; Lu 18:13; 1Jo 1:8-10

¹ sn In the confession “I have sinned” there is a recognition of wrong that pictures the penitent coming home and “being found.”

² sn The phrase against heaven is a circumlocution for God.

³ tn According to BDAG 342 s.v. ἐνωπιον 4.a, “in relation to ἁμαρτάνειν ἐ. τινος sin against someone Lk 15:18, 21 (cf. Jdth 5:17; 1 Km 7:6; 20:1).”