⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our^* sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Keeping the New Commandment

2My little children, I am writing these things to you in order that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one, ²and he^a is the propitiation^b for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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1 John 1:9: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Footnotes

*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
aOr “he himself” (emphatic)
bOr “expiation”; or “atoning sacrifice”