If 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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Gill's Exposition
If we confess our sins,.... Not to one other; for though it is our duty to confess our faults to our fellow creatures and fellow Christians which are committed against them, yet are under no…
Barnes' Notes
If we confess our sins - Pardon in the Scriptures, always supposes that there is confession, and there is no promise that it will be imparted unless a full acknowledgment has been made. Compare Ps.…
Adam Clarke
If we confess our sins - If, from a deep sense of our guilt, impurity, and helplessness, we humble ourselves before God, acknowledging our iniquity, his holiness, and our own utter helplessness, and…
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…
Cambridge Bible
If we confess our sins The opposite hypothesis is now taken and expanded, as in 1Jn 1:1; see note there. But there is no conjunction, no -but", as in 1Jn 1:1; and the asyndeton is telling. Greek has…
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