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].

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.

Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.