if this testimony is true:
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
(1 John 1:8)
what's 'your excuse' ?
i gotta go to work now Don.
guess i'll talk to you under your next screen name. may God give you another blessed day
if you confess your sin, He is faithful to forgive!
In the beginning if we deny our sins, then the truth is not in us, and we can not come clean for our sins. But if we confess the sins, and turn our heart in honest way to the God, and the Lord, we will come clean for our sins.
The writing in our dear brother Johns letter what you had quote, continues.
9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1 John 1:9)
We have to be honest on this, or we can not come clean for our sins.