1 John 2:1

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Timothy 2:5

There is one God and one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

Romans 8:34

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes, who is risen, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

John 14:6

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

2 Corinthians 5:21

God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

1 John 4:4

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 3:18

My little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. The one who does righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous.

John 8:11

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said to her, “Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.”

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter holy places made with hands, which are patterned after the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.

1 John 3:5

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

Ephesians 2:18

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

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Ezekiel 3:21

Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning. And you have delivered your soul.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, of whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you,

John 10:15

Even as the Father knows Me, so I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

John 5:36

“I have greater testimony than that of John. The works which the Father has given Me to finish, the very works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.

Luke 10:22

“All things have been handed over to Me by My Father. And no one knows who the Son is but the Father, and who the Father is but the Son and he to whom the Son desires to reveal Him.”

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no sin, nor was deceit found in His mouth.”

1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do not have the knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

John 5:14

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have become whole. Sin no more lest something worse happens to you.”

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! And cry aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; he is righteous and able to deliver, he is humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the offspring of a donkey.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Psalm 4:4

Tremble in awe, and do not sin. Meditate within your own heart on your bed, and be still.   Selah

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

Romans 6:15

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? God forbid!

John 13:33

“Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek Me. And as I said to the Jews, so now I tell you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

1 Timothy 3:14

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly,

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered Him, “No.”

John 14:16

I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Advocate, that He may be with you forever:

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? They have even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, how much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by His life!

1 John 5:17

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is a sin that does not lead to death.

3 John 1:4

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.