10 Bible Verses about Advocates
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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,
and I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Comforter, to be with you forever,
BUT the chief thing in addition to what has been said is, that we have such a chief priest who sat on the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens, a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord set up, not man.
who is on the right hand of God, having gone to heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
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, and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.
For there is one God, and one mediator of God and man, the man Christ Jesus,
but now he has obtained a more excellent service, by as much also as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established on better promises.
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
For Christ did not enter into the sanctuary made with hands, a type of the true, but into heaven itself, and already has appeared before God for us,
and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to a sprinkled blood which speaks better than Abel.
From Thematic Bible
Courts » Advocates » Witnesses, two or more needed to convict
This third time I am coming to you; by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
But if he does not hear you, take with you one or two more, that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established;
Courts » Advocates » The accused his own
Then Pilate went into the Praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews? Jesus answered, Do you say this of yourself, or did others tell you of me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Your nation and the chief priests have delivered you to me; what have you done? read more.
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom had been of this world my officers would have fought for me, that I should not be given up to the Jews; but now my kingdom is not here. Then Pilate said to him, Are you a king then? Jesus answered, As you say, I am a king. For this was I born, and for this I came into the world, that I should testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth hears my voice.
Courts » Advocates » Examination of prisoners
Then Pilate went into the Praetorium and called Jesus, and said to him, Are you the king of the Jews?
Courts » Advocates » Prisoners mal-treated
He having said these things, one of the officers who stood by gave Jesus a blow, saying, Do you answer the chief priest thus?
the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that he might know for what reason they cried so against him.
Courts » Advocates » Professional
AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the procurator against Paul.
Peter » Advocates » Gospel preaching » Gentiles
AND the apostles and brothers who were in Judea heard that the gentiles received the word of God. And when Peter went up to Jerusalem, those of the circumcision contended with him, saying, You went in to men that were uncircumcised, and eat with them. read more.
And Peter began and related to them in order, saying, I was in the city of Joppa praying, and I saw a vision in a trance, a vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by the four corners from heaven, and it came to me; and looking into it attentively I perceived and saw the quadrupeds of the earth and wild beasts and reptiles and birds of heaven. And I heard a voice saying to me, Arise, Peter, kill and eat. And I said, By no means, Lord, for nothing common or impure has ever entered into my mouth. And a voice answered from heaven a second time, What God has purified do not you regard common. And this was done thrice, and again all were taken up to heaven. And behold, immediately three men came to the house in which I was, being sent for me from Caesarea. And the Spirit told me to go with them. And these six brothers also went with me, and we entered into the house of the man. And he told us how he had seen the angel in his house standing and saying to him, Send to Joppa and call Simon who is called Peter, who will speak words to you by which you shall be saved and all your house. And when I began to speak the Holy Spirit fell on them as also on us in the beginning. And I remembered the word of the Lord how he said, John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. If therefore God gave the gift equally to them and to us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I should be able to forbid God? And hearing these things they were silent, and glorified God, saying, Then to the gentiles also has God indeed given the change of mind to life.
And after there had been much debate, Peter rose and said to them, Men and brothers, you know that in former days God chose among you that the gentiles should hear by my mouth the word of the gospel and believe. And the heart-searching God testified to them, giving to them the Holy Spirit even as to us, and made no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by the faith. read more.
Now, therefore, why do you try God, to put on the necks of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we could bear? But we believe that we shall be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same manner as they.
