If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

 (iv) The darkness stands for the chaos of life without God. God, says Paul, thinking of the first act of creation, commanded his light to shine out of the darkness ( 2 Corinthians 4:6). Without God's light the world is a chaos, in which life has neither order nor sense. 