Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin” (Psalm 51:1-2). James describes sincere repentance by calling for our laughter to be turned to mourning and our joy to be turned to heaviness. He exhorts us to cleanse our hands of past sins and purify our hearts of double-mindedness. (See James 4.)
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The eleventh description of covenant love in I Corinthians 13 is that charity “rejoiceth in the truth,” as opposed to the contrasting statement immediately given before—that charity “rejoiceth not in iniquity.” It is one matter to refrain from rejoicing in iniquity, but do you and your wife cultivate together a love that rejoices in the truth?
Judging one another is a result of diminishing the seriousness of our own sins and magnifying the seriousness of the sins of others. A reformation begins when we understand the horrendous wickedness of our own sins in the presence of a holy and righteous God. Then we can say, “We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy ...
The latter is iniquity; the former is a manifestation of knowing Jesus and His love. Are our works motivated by the love of God that we have received and experienced, or are we doing good deeds from a sense of religious obligation in an attempt to earn God’s favor? How do we know if we know Jesus?