If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9
"It is the inclination to excuse our moral defects that leads to the cultivation of sin.
We must never forget that God ascribes sin to the one who transgresses; it is not registered against Satan, but against the sinner.
God never accepts the agency of Satan as an excuse for the committal of one sin.
---Satan triumphs when he hears the professed follower of Christ offering excuses for his defects of character.
---Sin unrepented of, unconfessed, can never be blotted from the books of God's record."
E.G.W.
"It is the inclination to excuse our moral defects that leads to the cultivation of sin.
We must never forget that God ascribes sin to the one who transgresses; it is not registered against Satan, but against the sinner.
God never accepts the agency of Satan as an excuse for the committal of one sin.
---Satan triumphs when he hears the professed follower of Christ offering excuses for his defects of character.
---Sin unrepented of, unconfessed, can never be blotted from the books of God's record."
E.G.W.