If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Man's presumptuous blindness in denying the existence of sin, either as a principle, or as existent within himself, is self-deception at its worst. The Lord's Prayer which enjoined the petitions for daily bread and forgiveness, both assumed and implied the need of daily prayers for forgiveness.  "Woe to that soul that presumes to think that he can approach God in any other way than as a sinner asking mercy."[38]