1 John 1:4-10

4 And these things write we to you that your joy may be full.

5 And this is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.

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 Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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

10 If we say ^[b] that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or 'every.'
• [b]. In all these cases the verb is in the subjunctive, and puts the case of so doing. I should have translated them 'if we should say,' &c., but that it is the case in ver. 9 also, where it cannot be done.