1Jn 1:7  but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin. ASV

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. KJV

1Jn 1:7  But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of His Son Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. LITV

1Jn 1:7  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. MKJV
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                                   COMMENTARY

  The problem stated in the last vs was Saying while walking in darkness. This vs gives the solution and it is not changing what we say but rather what we do. We must correct our bogus profession not by changing the words we say but by changing how we act. Except -we- cannot change anything, unless God Changes us first by Regeneration.

Walking in the light is the exhortation; True Fellowshipping one with another (and with Christ; context) may then be claimed ; Cleansing of our sins by His blood is the promise.

No walkee in light... No Fellowship!   No walkee in light... NO BLOOD ! ! What does it mean to walk in the light?  It means to live our lives in the arena of truth & holiness. Rom 8—Mortify 2Cor 7:1  Col 3:1 — It means to deal with sin. Did Jesus deal with sin? 

  Moreover seeing as this was mainly for the benefit of heretical Gnostic thinking, John is saying that it is only the blood of Messiah that cleanses from sin. The Gnostic heretics claimed that they had no sin! By such a claim they were declaring that they had no need for the blood of the Son of God. By that they were rendering an insult to the redemptive work of Messiah and placing themselves outside the realm of salvation.

  Now.... since Scripture clearly testifies that man shall not live by bread alone but by -Every- word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, that means that every word of Scripture is important. In this verse notice the little word ‘all’. People that talk of the so-called doctrine of ‘remaining sin’ after one is saved never read this verse, for it says that the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from  -all-  sin. This is one place where all means all. Therefore the notion of so-called ‘remaining sin’ is a false doctrine not found in the Bible! Search & see!

  Moreover unless one can define the Biblical doctrine of "walking in the light" as that wherein a person can walk in the light while he is still sinning at one and the same time, the only other alternative is that walking in the light means not sinning. So to say that we walk in the light is to say that we do no sin!

Are you walking in the light?

1John

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