1 John 2:12

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1 John 2:12

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

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1 John 2:7

1 John 1:4

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Dear friends, it is no new command that I am writing you, but an old one that you have had from the beginning. That old command is the same as the message you have heard.

and we write this to you to make your happiness complete.

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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.

When he saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven!"

Therefore, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, are forgiven, for she has loved me so much. But the man with little to be forgiven loves me but little."

and that repentance leading to the forgiveness of sins should be preached to all the heathen in his name.

There is no salvation through anyone else, for there is no one else in the world who has been named to men as their only means of being saved."

It is of him that all the prophets bear witness that everyone that believes in him will have his sins forgiven in his name."

You must understand therefore, my brothers, that through him the forgiveness of your sins is announced to you,

So David himself says of the happiness of those to whom God credits uprightness without any reference to their actions,

It is through union with him and through his blood that we have been delivered and our offenses forgiven,

by whom we have been ransomed from captivity through having our sins forgiven.