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The Messiah is Our Advocate

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. It is he who is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world’s.

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

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:1 Or Christ

My dear children,(A) I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate(B) with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins,(C) and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.(D)

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We know(E) that we have come to know him(F) if we keep his commands.(G)

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