 | Francis Bragge - Theology - 1833 - 334 pages
...If we say that we have no sin, says St. John, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us ; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness l. To which agrees that of the wise king : He... | |
 | Newell Dwight Hillis - Character - 1902 - 140 pages
..."God is love" and forgives, and as broken-hearted children, we fall into the everlasting arms. For "if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." In reality, Christianity is the science of full... | |
 | Vincent Henry Stanton - Bible - 1920 - 316 pages
...but also for the whole world" (ii. 2, and cp. iv. 10); and in close connexion with these statements, that " if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." For parallels we should have to turn to the Pauline... | |
 | Thomas Cook - Bible - 1903 - 220 pages
...for sin (guilt), and purity for uncleanness (depravity). St John's teaching is exactly the same. " If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins (guilt), and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (depravity)." And with this view the hymn... | |
 | Vernon Staley - 1904 - 428 pages
...' " To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against Him." '" If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." ' And our blessed Saviour, to shew us what great compassion God has for him that has gone... | |
 | GEORGE BARKER STEVENS - 1917 - 620 pages
...penitence. " If he repent, forgive him " is the law alike for human and for the divine forgiveness. " If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (1 Jn. i. 9). The author does not shrink from implying that God would be unjust if he did... | |
 | Alfred Garnett Mortimer - Absolution - 1906 - 164 pages
...self-deception, and then implies that it may be avoided by Confession, and further asserts emphatically that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If, however, we do not confess our sins, there... | |
 | Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt - Theology - 1906 - 1252 pages
...going into the pit, and his life shall see the light" .... They might have been spoken by John — "If we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Thus the Two Testaments are one. Men spoke in... | |
 | 1882 - 822 pages
...save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Hun, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession ; that if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness ; that if we, being evil, know how to give good... | |
 | 1857 - 732 pages
...perfect cure. " If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us ; but, if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Look to Christ ; study him as a} Saviour in the... | |
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If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us; but if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
