1 John 2:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,

Cross References

Psalm 4:4

When you are disturbed, do not sin; ponder it on your beds, and be silent. Selah

Ezekiel 3:21

If, however, you warn the righteous not to sin and they do not sin, they shall surely live because they took warning, and you will have saved your life.

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Luke 10:22

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 13:33

Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’

John 14:16

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

John 14:6

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

John 21:5

Jesus said to them, “Children, you have no fish, have you?” They answered him, “No.”

John 5:14

Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

John 5:36

But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

John 6:27

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

John 8:11

She said, “No one, sir.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again.”]]

Acts 7:52

Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have become his betrayers and murderers.

Romans 5:10

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more surely, 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? By no means!

Romans 8:34

Who is to condemn? It is Christ who died, or rather, who was raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake God made the one who knew no sin to be sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Galatians 4:19

My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed in you,

Ephesians 2:18

for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 4:26

Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

1 Timothy 2:5

For there is one God; there is also one mediator between God and humankind, Christ Jesus, himself human,

1 Timothy 3:14

I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these instructions to you so that,

Hebrews 9:24

For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, but he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

James 1:27

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

James 3:9

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people, made in the likeness of God.

1 Peter 2:22

“He committed no 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, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth.

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

1 John 3:7

Little children, let no one deceive you. Everyone who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

1 John 4:4

Little children, you are from God and have conquered them, for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

1 John 5:17

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that is not deadly.

1 John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

3 John 1:4

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