Forgiveness – Day 21

₅Now the message that we have heard from his Son and announce is this: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in him. ₆If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions. ₇But if we live in the light — just as he is in the light — then we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from every sin.

₈If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us. ₉But if we confess our sins to God, he will keep his promise and do what is right: he will forgive us our sins and purify us from all our wrongdoing. ₁₀If we say that we have not sinned, we make God out to be a liar, and his word is not in us.

₁I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf — Jesus Christ, the righteous one. ₂And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.