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.
"What John has in mind here is the cleansing of the conscience from guilt and moral defilement which is so insisted on in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 9:14; Hebrews 10:2; Hebrews 10:22), and which takes a leading place among the saving benefits of the redemptive self-sacrifice of Christ." [Note: Bruce, p. 44.] 