Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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:
Holman 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
International Standard Version
My little children, I'm writing these things to you so that you might not sin. Yet if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus, the Messiah, one who is righteous.
A Conservative Version
My little children, I write these things to you so that ye may not sin. And if any man does sin, we have an advocate with the Father--righteous Jesus Christ.
American Standard Version
My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Amplified
My little children (believers, dear ones), I am writing you these things so that you will not sin and violate God’s law. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate [who will intercede for us] with the Father: Jesus Christ the righteous [the upright, the just One, who conforms to the Father’s will in every way—purpose, thought, and action].
An Understandable Version
My little children [i.e., dear ones], I am writing this to you so that you will not sin anymore. But if anyone does sin, we have Someone to go to the Father on our behalf; it is Jesus Christ, the [only] righteous One.
Anderson New Testament
My little children, I write these things to you, that you may not sin: and yet, if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Bible in Basic English
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may be without sin. And if any man is a sinner, we have a friend and helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, the upright one:
Common New Testament
My little children, I write this to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Daniel Mace New Testament
My dear children, these things I write unto you, that ye may avoid sin. but if any man has failed, we have an advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the just.
Darby Translation
My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if any one sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous;
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. Yet if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Just One.
Godbey New Testament
My little children, I write these things to you, in order that you may not sin. And if any one may sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Goodspeed New Testament
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone does sin, we have in Jesus Christ one who is upright and will intercede for us with the Father.
John Wesley New Testament
My beloved children, I write these things to you, that ye may not sin. But if any one sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous, And he is the propitiation for our sins;
Julia Smith Translation
My little children, I write these to you, that ye sin not. And if any sin, we have an intercessor with the Father, Jesus Christ the just:
King James 2000
My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Lexham Expanded Bible
My little children, I am writing these [things] to you in order that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous [one],
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye should sin not: if, though, any man sin, yet we have an Advocate with the father, even Jesus Christ, which is righteous.
Moffatt New Testament
My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just;
Montgomery New Testament
My children, I am writing this to you that you may not continue to sin; but if any one sin, we ever have a Comforter before the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
NET Bible
(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 One,
New Heart English Bible
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Noyes New Testament
My children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And if any one have sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Sawyer New Testament
My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous,
The Emphasized Bible
My dear children! these things, am I writing unto you, in order that ye may not be committing sin. And, if anyone should commit sin, an Advocate, have we, with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Twentieth Century New Testament
My children, I am writing to you to keep you from sinning; but if any one should sin, we have one who can plead for us with the Father--Jesus Christ, the Righteous--
Webster
My little children, these things I write to you, that ye sin not. And if any man sinneth, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Weymouth New Testament
Dear children, I write thus to you in order that you may not sin. If any one sins, we have an Advocate with the Father--Jesus Christ the righteous;
Williams New Testament
My dear children, I am writing you this so that you may not sin; yet if anyone ever sins, we have One who pleads our case with the Father, Jesus Christ, One who is righteous.
World English Bible
My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
Worrell New Testament
My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin. And, if any one sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the Righteous.
Worsley New Testament
My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
Youngs Literal Translation
My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,
Themes
Advocate » Saviour » Became mediator between God and man
Christ » Mediator » Became mediator between God and man
Error » Definition of » Forbidden
Evangelism » What preachers should do
Fellowship » Those that say they have fellowship with the lord, but are disobedient
Jesus Christ » Who is in jesus Christ
Jesus Christ » Names of » Advocate
Knowledge » Who knows the lord
Love » Who the love of God is perfected in
Privileges of saints » Having » Christ for their intercessor
Jesus Christ, Savior » Became mediator between God and man
Sin » Excuses offered for » Forbidden
Titles and names of saints » Little children
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 2:1
Prayers for 1 John 2:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Keeping The New Commandment
1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He is the propitiation concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.
Phrases
Cross References
Romans 8:34
Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also who is raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
1 Timothy 2:5
For God is one, and there is one Mediator of God and of men, the Man Christ Jesus,
John 14:6
Jesus said to him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father but by Me.
Galatians 4:19
My children, for whom I again travail until Christ should be formed in you,
Hebrews 9:24
For Christ has not entered into the Holy of Holies made with hands, which are the figures of the true, but into Heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.
1 John 2:12-13
I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His name's sake.
1 John 3:7
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as that One is righteous.
1 John 3:18
My children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
1 John 4:4
You are of God, little children, and you have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 5:21
Little children, guard yourselves from idols. Amen.
Psalm 4:4
Tremble, and sin not; speak within your own heart on your bed and be still. Selah.
Ezekiel 3:21
But if you warn the righteous so that the righteous does not sin, and if he does not sin, he shall surely live because he is warned; also you have delivered your soul.
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, your King comes to you. He is righteous and victorious, meek and riding on an ass, even on a colt, the son of an ass.
Luke 10:22
All things are delivered to Me by My Father; and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son will reveal Him.
John 5:14
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, Behold, you are made whole. Sin no more lest a worse thing come to you.
John 5:19-26
Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son can do nothing of Himself but what He sees the Father do. For whatever things He does, these also the Son does likewise.
John 5:36
But I have greater witness than that of John, for the works which the Father has given Me that I should finish them, the works which I do themselves witness of Me, that the Father has sent Me.
John 6:27
Do not labor for the food that perishes, but for that food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father sealed Him.
John 8:11
And she said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I give judgment. Go, and sin no more.
John 10:15
Even as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
John 13:33
Little children, I am with you yet a little while. You shall seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, Where I go, you cannot come, so I now say to you.
John 21:5
Then Jesus said to them, Children, do you have anything to eat? They answered Him, No.
Romans 6:1-2
What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may abound?
Romans 6:15
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under Law, but under grace? Let it not be!
1 Corinthians 4:14-15
I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Be righteously awake, and sin not; for some have ignorance of God. I speak this to your shame.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For He has made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
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. Do not let the sun go down upon your wrath,
1 Timothy 3:14
I write these things to you, hoping to come to you shortly.
Titus 2:11-13
For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
Hebrews 7:24-26
but He, because He continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit orphans and widows in their afflictions, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
James 3:9
By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.
1 Peter 1:15-19
but according to the Holy One who has called you, you also become holy in all conduct,
1 Peter 2:22
He who did no sin, nor was guile found in His mouth,
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
1 Peter 4:1-3
Therefore, Christ having suffered for us in the flesh, also you arm yourselves with the same thought, that he suffering in the flesh has been made to rest from sin,
1 John 1:3-4
that which we have seen and heard we declare unto you, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:8-10
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 2:28-29
And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He is revealed, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him in His coming.
1 John 3:5
And you know that He was revealed that He might take away our sins, and in Him is no sin.