Sin and Forgiveness
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The proper Christian attitude to sin is not to deny it but to admit it, and then to receive the forgiveness which God has made possible and promises to us. *If we confess our sins*, acknowledging before God that we are sinners not only by nature (*sin*) but by practice also (*our sins*), God will both *forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness* (1 Jn. 1:9). In the first phrase sin is a debt which he remits and in the second a stain which he removes.
--From "The Letters of John" (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries: rev. edn. Leicester: IVP, 1988), p. 82.
The proper Christian attitude to sin is not to deny it but to admit it, and then to receive the forgiveness which God has made possible and promises to us. *If we confess our sins*, acknowledging before God that we are sinners not only by nature (*sin*) but by practice also (*our sins*), God will both *forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness* (1 Jn. 1:9). In the first phrase sin is a debt which he remits and in the second a stain which he removes.
--From "The Letters of John" (Tyndale New Testament Commentaries: rev. edn. Leicester: IVP, 1988), p. 82.
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