1 John 1:5-7.
The great God should be represented to this dark world, as pure and perfect light. As this is the nature of God, his doctrines and precepts must be such. And as his perfect happiness cannot be separated from his perfect holiness, so our happiness will be in proportion to our being made holy.
To walk in darkness, is to live and act against religion. God holds no heavenly fellowship or intercourse with unholy souls. There is no truth in their profession; their practice shows its folly and falsehood. (However), the eternal Life, the eternal Son, . . . procures for us the sacred influences by which sin is to be subdued more and more, till it is quite done away.
While the necessity of a holy walk is insisted upon, as the effect and evidence of the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, the opposite error of self-righteous pride is guarded against with equal care.
All who walk near to God, in holiness and righteousness, are sensible that their best days and duties are mixed with sin. ... (In the Light) the sinfulness of believers ... is shown, ... requiring them continually to confess their sins, and to apply by faith to the blood of that Sacrifice.
Let us plead guilty before God, be humble, and willing to know the worst of our case. Let us honestly confess all our sins in their full extent, relying wholly on his mercy and truth through the righteousness of Christ, for a free and full forgiveness, and our deliverance from the power and practice of sin.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible is available in the Public Domain.
(emphasis mine)
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