1Jo 1:7, 9 | Family | STEP | Walk in the light ; know and obey the truth. Fellowship one with another ; joyful communion with each other and with God. Cleanseth us from all sin ; expiates the guilt of all our sin, and cleanses our souls from all its pollution. This cleansing, so far as it is a work of sanctification, is not a momentary act, but a process which God carries forward till it ends in our perfect and everlasting holiness. It is given to those who walk in the light as God is in the light, seeking daily to know and do all God's will. The atonement of Christ is the ground, faith in him the means, and the Holy Ghost the author of sanctification; and all who truly believe, confess and forsake their sins, will, at the close of their probation, become completely and unchangeably perfect.

1 John 1:7

Walk in the light ; know and obey the truth. Fellowship one with another ; joyful communion with each other and with God. Cleanseth us from all sin ; expiates the guilt of all our sin, and cleanses our souls from all its pollution. This cleansing, so far as it is a work of sanctification, is not a momentary act, but a process which God carries forward till it ends in our perfect and everlasting holiness. It is given to those who walk in the light as God is in the light, seeking daily to know and do all God's will. The atonement of Christ is the ground, faith in him the means, and the Holy Ghost the author of sanctification; and all who truly believe, confess and forsake their sins, will, at the close of their probation, become completely and unchangeably perfect.

1 John 1:9

Confess our sins; to God, and forsake them. Pr 28:13.

Faithful; to his promises of forgiveness to the penitent. Pr 28:13.

Just; to himself and all the great interests of his kingdom.

Cleanse us; from the guilt and the defilement of sin, so as at last to present us spotless before the throne of his glory with exceeding joy. Jude 24.