9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. …
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-10)Here, I. The apostle, having supposed that even those of this heavenly communion have yet their sin, proceeds here to justify that supposition, and this he does by showing the dreadful consequences of denying it, and that in two particulars:—1. If we say, We have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us , 1 John 1:8. We must beware of deceiving ourselves in denying or excusing our…
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