1 John 2:1

Keeping The New Commandment

¹ 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-- ² and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.

For Us

Go to the Father

Jesus Christ

Little Child

Little Children

My Children

On Our Behalf

Propitiation for Our Sins

Righteous One

Without Sin

Christ

Jesus

Messiah

Sin

Romans 8:34

Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus!-or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God's right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!

1 Timothy 2:5

There is but one God, and one mediator between God and men--the man, Christ Jesus,

John 14:6

Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.

Galatians 4:19

You for whom I am again enduring a mother's pains, till a likeness to Christ shall have been formed in you.

Hebrews 9:24

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into Heaven itself, that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

1 John 2:12-13

I am writing, Children, to you, because your sins have been forgiven you for Christ's sake.

1 John 3:7

My Children, do not let any one mislead you. He who lives righteously is righteous--as Christ is righteous.

1 John 3:18

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.

1 John 4:4

You, my Children, come from God, and you have successfully resisted such men as these, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

1 John 5:21

My Children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.

Luke 10:22

Everything has been committed to me by my Father; nor does any one know who the Son is, except the Father, or who the Father is, except the Son and those to whom the Son may choose to reveal him."

John 5:14

Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him: "You are cured now; do not sin again, for fear that something worse may befall you."

John 5:19-26

So Jesus made this further reply: "In truth I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself; he does only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does also.

John 5:36

But the testimony which I have is of greater weight than John's; for the work that the Father has given me to carry out-- the work that I am doing--is in itself proof that the Father has sent me as his Messenger.

John 6:27

Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval."

John 8:11

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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

My children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. You will look for me; and what I said to the Jews--'You cannot come where I am going'--I now say to you.

John 21:5

"My children," he said, "have you anything to eat?" "No," they answered.

Romans 6:1-2

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God's loving-kindness may be multiplied?

Romans 6:15

What follows, then? Are we to sin because we are living under the reign of Love and not of Law? Heaven forbid!

1 Corinthians 4:14-15

It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Him who never knew sin God made to be Sin, on our behalf; so that we, through union with him, might become the Righteousness of God.

Ephesians 2:18

For it is through him that we, the Jews and the Gentiles, united in the one Spirit, are now able to approach the Father.

Ephesians 4:26

'Be angry, yet do not sin.' Do not let the sun go down upon your anger;

1 Timothy 3:14

I am writing this to you, though I hope that I shall come to see you before long;

Titus 2:11-13

For the loving-kindness of God has been revealed, bringing Salvation for all;

Hebrews 7:24-26

but Jesus remains for all time, and therefore the priesthood that he holds is never liable to pass to another.

James 1:27

That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this--to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.

James 3:9

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men who are made 'in God's likeness.'

1 Peter 1:15-19

but in your whole life show yourselves to be holy, after the pattern of the Holy One from whom you received your Call.

1 Peter 2:22

He 'never sinned, nor was anything deceitful ever heard from his lips.'

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ himself died to atone for sins once for all--the good on behalf of the bad--that he might bring you to God; his body being put to death, but his spirit entering upon new Life.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin,

1 John 1:3-4

It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

1 John 1:8-10

If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the Truth has no place in us.

1 John 2:28-29

Yes, my Children, maintain your union with Christ, so that, whenever he appears, our confidence may not fail us, and we may not be ashamed to meet him at his coming.

1 John 3:5

And you know that Christ appeared to take away our sins; and in him Sin has no place.