1 John 2:1

God's Word

My dear children, I’m writing this to you so that you will not sin. Yet, if anyone does sin, we have Jesus Christ, who has God’s full approval. He speaks on our behalf when we come into the presence of the Father.

Cross References

Psalm 4:4

Tremble and do not sin. Think about this on your bed and remain quiet. Selah

Ezekiel 3:21

But if you warn righteous people not to sin, and they don’t sin, they will certainly live because they listened to the warning. You will save yourself.”

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice with all your heart, people of Zion! Shout in triumph, people of Jerusalem! Look! Your King is coming to you: He is righteous and victorious. He is humble and rides on a donkey, on a colt, a young pack animal.

Luke 10:22

“My Father has turned everything over to me. Only the Father knows who the Son is. And no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son is willing to reveal him.”

John 10:15

So I give my life for my sheep.

John 13:33

Jesus said, “Dear children, I will still be with you for a little while. I’m telling you what I told the Jews. You will look for me, but you can’t go where I’m going.

John 14:16

I will ask the Father, and he will give you another helper who will be with you forever.

John 14:6

Jesus answered him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the Father except through me.

John 21:5

Jesus asked them, “Friends, haven’t you caught any fish?” They answered him, “No, we haven’t.”

John 5:14

Later, Jesus met the man in the temple courtyard and told him, “You’re well now. Stop sinning so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

John 5:36

But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John’s testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me.

John 6:27

Don’t work for food that spoils. Instead, work for the food that lasts into eternal life. This is the food the Son of Man will give you. After all, the Father has placed his seal of approval on him.”

John 8:11

The woman answered, “No one, sir.” Jesus said, “I don’t condemn you either. Go! From now on don’t sin.”

Acts 7:52

Was there ever a prophet your ancestors didn’t persecute? They killed those who predicted that a man with God’s approval would come. You have now become the people who betrayed and murdered that man.

Romans 5:10

If the death of his Son restored our relationship with God while we were still his enemies, we are even more certain that, because of this restored relationship, the life of his Son will save us.

Romans 6:15

Then what is the implication? Should we sin because we are not controlled by God’s laws but by God’s favor? That’s unthinkable!

Romans 8:34

Who will condemn them? Christ has died, and more importantly, he was brought back to life. Christ is in the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne. Christ also intercedes for us.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning. Some people don’t know anything about God. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God had Christ, who was sinless, take our sin so that we might receive God’s approval through him.

Galatians 4:19

My children, I am suffering birth pains for you again until Christ is formed in you.

Ephesians 2:18

So Jewish and non-Jewish people can go to the Father in one Spirit.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry without sinning. Don’t go to bed angry.

1 Timothy 2:5

There is one God. There is also one mediator between God and humans—a human, Christ Jesus.

1 Timothy 3:14

I hope to visit you soon. However, I’m writing this to you

Hebrews 9:24

Christ didn’t go into a holy place made by human hands. He didn’t go into a model of the real thing. Instead, he went into heaven to appear in God’s presence on our behalf.

James 1:27

Pure, unstained religion, according to God our Father, is to take care of orphans and widows when they suffer and to remain uncorrupted by this world.

James 3:9

With our tongues we praise our Lord and Father. Yet, with the same tongues we curse people, who were created in God’s likeness.

1 Peter 2:22

Christ never committed any sin. He never spoke deceitfully.

1 Peter 3:18

This is true because Christ suffered for our sins once. He was an innocent person, but he suffered for guilty people so that he could bring you to God. His body was put to death, but he was brought to life through his spirit.

1 John 3:18

Dear children, we must show love through actions that are sincere, not through empty words.

1 John 3:5

You know that Christ appeared in order to take away our sins. He isn’t sinful.

1 John 3:7

Dear children, don’t let anyone deceive you. Whoever does what God approves of has God’s approval as Christ has God’s approval.

1 John 4:4

Dear children, you belong to God. So you have won the victory over these people, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:17

Every kind of wrongdoing is sin, yet there are sins that don’t lead to death.

1 John 5:21

Dear children, guard yourselves from false gods.

3 John 1:4

Nothing makes me happier than to hear that my children are living according to the truth.