1 John 2:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:

These

1 John 1:3

1 Timothy 3:14

And if

1 John 1:8

Father

The righteous

General references

Hebrews 8:12

Bible References

These

what we have seen and heard, we declare unto you, that ye also may be of the same society with us: and truly associated with the father, and with his son Jesus Christ.

This I write, tho' I hope to make you a visit in a little time, that in case I am retarded,

And if

If we say that we are without sin, we deceive ourselves, and have no regard to truth.

Father

the management of every thing is committed to me by my father: no one knows what character the son is invested with, except the father; nor who the father is, except the son, and he to whom the son shall please to reveal it.

upon which Jesus said to them, verily, verily I say unto you, the son can do nothing of himself, except he sees the father do it: for whatever he doth, that the son does likewise.

work not for the food which perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life, and which the son of man shall give unto you, for to him it is that the father, that is God, has given his credentials.

(as the father and I are known to one another:) and I lay down my life for them.

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me.

for thro' him both of us have access by the same spirit to the father.

pure and unadulterated religion, in the eye of God our father, consists in taking care of orphans and widows in their distress: and in keeping clear of the vices of the age.

By that we give praises to God the father: and that pronounces curses even against men, who are form'd after the divine resemblance.

The righteous

since you know that God is the source of virtue, you know that every one who has virtue, derives it from him.

and you know that he appear'd to abolish our sins; and that he was himself without sin.

for he hath made him who knew no sin to be a sin-offering for us, that we might be justified by God thro' him.

and indeed we wanted an high priest of such a character, one that is holy, innocent, undefiled, one that is separated from sinful men, and exalted above the heavens; one who was under no necessity,

leaving an example for your exact imitation, he who never offended, and from whose lips no fallacy was ever utter'd,

for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

General references

for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sins and their trangressions will I remember no more."