Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Holman Bible
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive
International Standard Version
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.
A Conservative Version
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from every unrighteousness.
American Standard Version
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Amplified
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].
An Understandable Version
[But] if we confess our sins [to God], He is faithful [to His promise] and righteous [in His judgment], and will forgive us of those sins and cleanse us from all of our wrongdoing.
Anderson New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, so that he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Bible in Basic English
If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.
Common New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Daniel Mace New Testament
if we confess our sins, as he is faithful and just, he will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all iniquity.
Darby Translation
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Godbey New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous that he may forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
John Wesley New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Julia Smith Translation
If we acknowledge our sins, he is faithful and just that he let go sins to us, and cleanse us from all injustice.
King James 2000
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
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.
Modern King James verseion
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If we knowledge our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Moffatt New Testament
if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, he forgives our sins and cleanses us from all iniquity;
Montgomery New Testament
But if we confess our sins, faithful is he and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all wrong-doing.
NET Bible
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
New Heart English Bible
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Noyes New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Sawyer New Testament
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins, and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
The Emphasized Bible
If we are confessing our sins, faithful, is he and, righteous - that he should forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
If we confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Twentieth Century New Testament
If we confess our sins, God may be trusted, in his righteousness, to forgive us our sins and purify us from all wickedness.
Webster
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Weymouth New Testament
If we confess our sins, He is so faithful and just that He forgives us our sins and cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
Williams New Testament
If we confess our sins, He is to be depended on, since He is just, to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from every wrong.
World English Bible
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Worrell New Testament
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Worsley New Testament
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness:
Youngs Literal Translation
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;
Themes
Cleanness » Who will be cleansed from sin
Confession » The reward for confessing sin
Confession of sin » Encouraged
Confession of sin » Followed by pardon
God, Faithfulness of » Manifested » In forgiving sins
Forgiveness » Who shall be forgiven
God's Promises » Of mercy » Of pardon
God, Justice of » Exhibited in » Forgiving sins
Pardon » Is granted » To those who confess their sins
Pardon » Exhibits the » Justice of God
Pardon » Exhibits the » Faithfulness of God
Sin » Confession of » Encouraged
Sin » Those that say they have no sin
Interlinear
Pistos
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
hemin
ἡμᾶς
hemas
Usage: 170
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 John 1:9
Devotionals containing 1 John 1:9
References
Morish
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 1:9
Prayers for 1 John 1:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God Is Light, So Walk In The Light
8 If we say, "We are without any sin," we are deceiving ourselves, and there is no truth in our hearts. 9 If we acknowledge our sins, he is upright and can be depended on to forgive our sins and cleanse us from everything wrong. 10 If we say, "We have not sinned," we are making him a liar, and his message is not in our hearts.
Cross References
1 John 1:7
But if we live in the light, just as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from every sin.
Titus 2:14
He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.
1 Corinthians 6:11
Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.
Matthew 3:6
and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, in acknowledgment of their sins.
Mark 1:5
And all Judea and everybody in Jerusalem went out to him there, and accepted baptism from him in the Jordan River, acknowledging their sins.
Acts 19:18
Many who became believers would come and openly confess their former practices.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Ephesians 5:26
to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him,
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a trustworthy saying, entitled to the fullest acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And I am the foremost of them,
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not so unjust as to forget the work you have done and the love you have showed for his cause, in giving help to your fellow-Christians as you still do.
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.
Hebrews 11:11
Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it.
Revelation 15:3
and they were singing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your doings, Lord God Almighty! Upright and true are your ways, King of the Ages!