JesusIs4Me
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This is because sin cannot be imputed to the body of Christ or to any believer in the body of Christ. Every believer in the body of Christ is one with Christ.
Colossians 3:3
For you are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
The believer is dead to the mentality of sin in their body because of the oneness of Christ. The believer's body is the temple of the Holy Ghost; it cannot be sinful.
Christ has already forgiven the believer's sins. Christ died once and has forgiven us forever.
1 John 2:12
I write unto you, little children, because your sins "ARE" forgiven you for his name's sake.
A believer's sins are forgiven in the name sake of Jesus Christ. Because it's in Jesus' name and believers are in Jesus where there is no sin, it is an everlasting forgiveness.
1 John 3:6
Whosoever abides in Christ sins not: whosoever sins hath not seen him, neither known him.
This verse is not about believers habitually or practicing sin, but it about what is in Christ. Christ is the root of righteousness and anyone in Christ is righteous. Christ is the nourishment to every believer in Him and until the day of judgment no person in Christ will be cast out. No man can pluck themselves out of Christ hands, and Christ is not plucking any man out of His body until the day of judgment. A believer doesn't go in and out of Christ body as they will because they can't. If a believer does not abide in Christ, as scripture says, it means, if anyman does not abide in Christ's word.
You forget again 1 John 2:1-2 for why 1 John 1:9 exists for believers when they need Him to forgive them of their sins.
1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts:and then shall every man have praise of God.
You are to judge as to correct; see Matthew 18:15-17
You are not to judge as to condemn because this present time is not the time for it but to call believers and not just sinners to repentance. 2 Peter 3:3-14
For believers, it is for running that race to be received as vessels unto honor in His House. Those who do not look to Him for help in laying aside every weight & sin will find themselves left behind when the Bridegroom comes to be resurrected later on as vessels unto dishonor in His House. That is where the vessels unto dishonor comes from that are still in His House that even former believers are still saved, for why they are called to depart from iniquity too ( that means depart from sin too ) in 2 Timothy 2:18-21.
Do not reply until you clicked on those references and read those scriptures because you need to explain them away to maintain your position. Otherwise, this discussion remains at an impasse.