1 John 2:1

John writes to keep believers from sin, yet assures that when we do sin, Jesus the righteous is our Advocate before the Father. Grace does not excuse sin but covers it.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Tim 2:5For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
• Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• 1 Jn 1:8–10If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• Heb 7:24–26But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable.
• 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Titus 2:11–13For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men,
• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 Jn 3:18My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• 1 Jn 2:28–29Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
• 1 Pet 4:1–3Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
• 1 Jn 2:12–13I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.
• John 8:11She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”
• Heb 9:24For Christ hasn’t entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
• 1 Pet 1:15–19but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• Ezek 3:21Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.”
• Eph 2:18For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• 1 Jn 3:5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• John 6:27Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
• John 5:19–26Jesus therefore answered them, “Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise.
• Luke 10:22Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”
• Eph 4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,
• Gal 4:19My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you —
• 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
• John 5:36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• John 5:14Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”
• Rom 6:1–2What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
• 1 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• 1 Pet 2:22who did not sin, “neither was deceit found in his mouth.”
• 1 Jn 1:3–4that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
• Jas 1:27Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Ps 4:4Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.
• 1 Jn 5:21Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• 1 Cor 4:14–15I don’t write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
• Rom 6:15What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
• Jas 3:9With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
• John 13:33Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, ‘Where I am going, you can’t come,’ so now I tell you.

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