1 John 2:1

Holman Christian Standard Bible

My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father — Jesus Christ the Righteous One.

Cross References

Psalm 4:4

Be angry and do not sin; on your bed, reflect in your heart and be still. Selah

Ezekiel 3:21

But if you warn the righteous person that he should not sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he listened to your warning, and you will have saved your life.”

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout in triumph, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your King is coming to you; He is righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Luke 10:22

All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.”

John 10:15

as the Father knows Me, and I know the Father. I lay down My life for the sheep.

John 13:33

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Counselor to be with you forever.

John 14:6

Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 21:5

“Men,” Jesus called to them, “you don’t have any fish, do you? ” “No,” they answered.

John 5:14

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

John 5:36

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

John 6:27

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

John 8:11

“No one, Lord,” she answered. “Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They even killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become.

Romans 5:10

For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, then how much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!

Romans 6:15

What then? Should we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

Romans 8:34

Who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is the One who died, but even more, has been raised; He also is at the right hand of God and intercedes for us.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

2 Corinthians 5:21

He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Galatians 4:19

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

Ephesians 2:18

For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry and do not sin. Don’t let the sun go down on your anger,

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, Christ Jesus, Himself human,

1 Timothy 3:14

I write these things to you, hoping to come to you soon.

Hebrews 9:24

For the Messiah did not enter a sanctuary made with hands (only a model of the true one) but into heaven itself, so that He might now appear in the presence of God for us.

James 1:27

Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 3:9

We praise our Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God’s likeness with it.

1 Peter 2:22

He did not commit sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth;

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm.

1 John 3:18

Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.

1 John 3:5

You know that He was revealed so that He might take away sins, and there is no sin in Him.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you! The one who does what is right is righteous, just as He is righteous.

1 John 4:4

You are from God, little children, and you have conquered them, because the One who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:17

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin that does not bring death.

1 John 5:21

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than this: to hear that my children are walking in the truth.