Those who think they never sin after salvation are denying the ongoing lifelong need for sanctification and confession. Those who think they never sin after salvation will never confess sin to grow in holiness. They will claim their sins are mistakes and grow only in pride.
This was written to believers:
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Romans 7:23-25 "…23 But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I serve the law of God, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.…
Those who declare they are sinless make terrible spouses and friends. These people are deeply prideful and superior to those they think are beneath them. They tend to be harsh and arrogant toward others who have fallen even after they have confessed and turned from their sin. They also tend to judge little matters as though we have fallen off the cliff.
There is a sense of shaming people for small matters, even things that are not sins but just not the way they would handle things. These people are not teachable, their nose is so lifted up that they would drown in the next good rain.
I rebuke those who think they never sin!!!
1 John 1:7-9 "…7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
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