1Jo 2:1-2 | ESV | STEP | My little children , I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin . But if anyone does sin , we have an advocate with the Father , Jesus Christ the righteous .

b ch. 4:10; Rom. 3:25; [2 Cor. 5:18, 19; Col. 1:20]

c ch. 4:14; John 1:29; 4:42; 11:51, 52; 12:32

1 John 2:1-2

Christ Our Advocate

1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, ^awe have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 ^bHe is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but ^calso for the sins of the whole world.