1 John 2:1-3

International Standard Version

The Messiah is Our Advocate

2 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,^[a] one who is righteous. ² It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world’s.

³ This is how we can be sure that we have come to know him: if we continually keep his commandments.