1 John 1:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Common English Bible

⁹ 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.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

1 John 1:9 Cross References

1 Kings 8:30

And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant and of thy people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place; and when thou hearest, forgive.

1 Kings 8:47

yet if they lay it to heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to thee in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have acted perversely and wickedly’;

Nehemiah 1:6

let thy ear be attentive, and thy eyes open, to hear the prayer of thy servant which I now pray before thee day and night for the people of Israel thy servants, confessing the sins of the people of Israel, which we have sinned against thee. Yea, I and my father's house have sinned.

Psalm 19:12

But who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

Psalm 32:5

I acknowledged my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my trangressions to the Lord”; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. Selah

Exodus 34:7

keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Isaiah 45:21

Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together! Who told this long ago? Who declared it of old? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me.

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you rebelled against the Lord your God and scattered your favors among strangers under every green tree, and that you have not obeyed my voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:8

I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me.

Lamentations 3:23

they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.

Ezekiel 36:25

I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Ezekiel 37:23

They shall not defile themselves any more with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will save them from all the backslidings in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

Matthew 3:6

and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 1:5

And there went out to him all the country of Judea, and all the people of Jerusalem; and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

Luke 22:57

But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him.”

John 17:25

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

Acts 19:18

Many also of those who were now believers came, confessing and divulging their practices.

Romans 3:26

it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies him who has faith in Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:9

God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:26

that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 Timothy 1:15

The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of sinners;

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;

Hebrews 11:11

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not so unjust as to overlook your work and the love which you showed for his sake in serving the saints, as you still do.

1 John 1:7

but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

Revelation 15:3

And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and wonderful are thy deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are thy ways, O King of the ages!