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1 John 1:9
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KJ21
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
ASV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
AMP
If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just [true to His own nature and promises], and will forgive our sins and cleanse us continually from all unrighteousness [our wrongdoing, everything not in conformity with His will and purpose].
AMPC
If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action].
BRG
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
CSB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
CSBA
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
CEB
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from everything we’ve done wrong.
CJB
If we acknowledge our sins, then, since he is trustworthy and just, he will forgive them and purify us from all wrongdoing.
CEV
But if we confess our sins to God, he can always be trusted to forgive us and take our sins away.
DARBY
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us [our] sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
DLNT
If we are confessing our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
DRA
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
ERV
But if we confess our sins, God will forgive us. We can trust God to do this. He always does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done.
EASY
Instead, we should agree that we have done wrong things and tell that to God. Then God will forgive us for our sins. He always does what he has promised to do. He always does what is right. He will forgive us and he will make us clean again, whatever bad things we may have done.
EHV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
ESV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
ESVUK
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
EXB
But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because ·we can trust God to do what is right [L he is faithful and righteous/just; Deut. 32:4]. He will ·cleanse [purify] us from all ·the wrongs we have done [unrighteousness].
GNV
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
GW
God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong.
GNT
But 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.
HCSB
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
ICB
But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. We can trust God. He does what is right. He will make us clean from all the wrongs we have done.
ISV
If we make it our habit to confess our sins, in his faithful righteousness he forgives us for those sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
PHILLIPS
Here, then, is the message which we heard from him, and now proclaim to you: GOD IS LIGHT and no shadow of darkness can exist in him. Consequently, if we were to say that we enjoyed fellowship with him and still went on living in darkness, we should be both telling and living a lie. But if we really are living in the same light in which he eternally exists, then we have true fellowship with each other, and the blood which his Son shed for us keeps us clean from all sin. If we refuse to admit that we are sinners, then we live in a world of illusion and truth becomes a stranger to us. But if we freely admit that we have sinned, we find God utterly reliable and straightforward—he forgives our sins and makes us thoroughly clean from all that is evil. For if we take up the attitude “we have not sinned”, we flatly deny God’s diagnosis of our condition and cut ourselves off from what he has to say to us.
JUB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
KJV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
AKJV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
LSB
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
LEB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins and will cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
TLB
But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us because Christ died to wash away our sins.
MSG
If we claim that we’re free of sin, we’re only fooling ourselves. A claim like that is errant nonsense. On the other hand, if we admit our sins—simply come clean about them—he won’t let us down; he’ll be true to himself. He’ll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing. If we claim that we’ve never sinned, we out-and-out contradict God—make a liar out of him. A claim like that only shows off our ignorance of God.
MEV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
MOUNCE
If we confess · our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NOG
God is faithful and reliable. If we confess our sins, he forgives them and cleanses us from everything we’ve done wrong.
NABRE
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from every wrongdoing.
NASB
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NASB1995
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NCB
However, if we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all wrongdoing.
NCV
But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done.
NET
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
NIRV
But God is faithful and fair. If we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins. He will forgive every wrong thing we have done. He will make us pure.
NIV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
NIVUK
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
NKJV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NLV
If we tell Him our sins, He is faithful and we can depend on Him to forgive us of our sins. He will make our lives clean from all sin.
NLT
But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
NMB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NRSVA
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NRSVACE
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NRSVCE
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NRSVUE
If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
NTFE
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
OJB
If we make vidduy (confession of sin) of chattoteinu (our sins), he is ne’eman (faithful) and tzaddik to grant selicha (forgiveness) of chattoteinu (our sins) and give us tohorah (purification, cleansing) from kol avon. [DEVARIM 32:4; TEHILLIM 32:5; 51:2; MISHLE 28:13; MICHOH 7:18-20]
RGT
If we acknowledge our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
RSV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
RSVCE
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
TLV
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
VOICE
But if we own up to our sins, God shows that He is faithful and just by forgiving us of our sins and purifying us from the pollution of all the bad things we have done.
WEB
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
WE
Let us tell God about our wrong ways. God can be trusted. He does what is right. He will forgive us for the wrong things we have done. He will make us clean from all that was wrong.
WYC
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, that he forgive to us our sins, and cleanse us from all wickedness.
YLT
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
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