If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
The saint is to confess. The word "confess" is homologeo, from homos, "the same," and lego, "to say," thus, "to say the same thing as another," or, "to agree with another." Confession of sin on the part of the saint means therefore to say the same thing that God does about that sin, to agree with God as to all the implication of that sin as it relates to the Christian who commits it and to the holy God against whom it is committed (104). 