Christ Is Our Advocate
1 My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an 2:1 Or IntercessorAdvocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and He Himself is the 2:2 I.e., means of reconciliation with God by atoning for sins; or sin-offeringpropitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.