JumpStart: Why I Don’t Have To Keep Confessing Sins

1 John 1:9, 1 John 1:5, 1 John 1:7. Hebrews 8:12, Colossians 1:12-14. Many Christians believe they have to confess every sin they commit in order to stay in fellowship with God. However nothing could be further from the truth. 1 John 1: 9 does not apply to Christians. It was being written to gnostics who denied that sin even existed. 1 John 1:9 is a verse to people who needed to admit that they had a sin problem so they could receive forgiveness and be born again.

This is not a maintenance verse for believers to maintain fellowship. 1 John 1:7 makes it very clear that we live under a constant waterfall of forgiveness and live in constant communion with God.