1 John 2:1

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 2:1

OUR ADVOCATE‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.’ 1 John 2:1 In the great Arbitration between God and man, Jesus, being God, lays His hand on God, and Jesus, being Man, lays His hand on every believing man, and brings them together in peace. I. Christ is an authoritative Advocate.—‘All power,’ He said, ‘is given unto Me in heaven and in earth’ (St. Matthew 28:18). You notice the four ‘alls’—‘all power,’ ‘all nations,’ ‘all things,’ ‘all the days.’... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - 1 John 2:1-2

COMFORTABLE WORDS‘If any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous: and He is the propitiation for our sins.’ 1 John 2:1-Exodus :‘Hear also what St. John saith.’ So our text is introduced to us as one of the Comfortable Words of our Communion service. It brings to our minds the sinner, the Father, and the Saviour. I. The sinner.—‘If any man sin.’ This, then, is clearly a message for you and for me. St. John, the Apostle of Love, is not one whit behind the other... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:1-2

‘My little children, these things write I to you that you may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.’ Here the ageing John addresses his readers with great tenderness, they are as it were, his little children (teknia - in this he is following Jesus - see John 13:33), those for whom he feels great responsibility. And he assures them that he does not... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - 1 John 2:1-2

1 John 2:1 f. Instead of regarding sin as non-existent or unimportant, men should avoid committing it; though if they sin, they may secure forgiveness because of the sacrifice and intercession of Christ. 1 John 2:1 . an advocate: otherwise “ Comforter” or “ Paraclete.” The word is applied in John 14 to the Holy Spirit. It denotes primarily “ one who is called to the aid of another” in a court of law, “ the counsel for the defence.” Hence here it describes Christ in His intercession for... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - 1 John 2:1

He endeavours in this to steer them a middle course, that they might neither presume to sin, nor despair if they did; and bespeaks them with a compellation, importing both authority and love; well becoming him as then an aged person, an apostle, their teacher, and who was their most affectionate spiritual father. And lets them know, the first design of what he was now writing (had hitherto written, and was further to write) was: That they might to their uttermost avoid sinning at all: but adds,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - 1 John 2:1-6

PROVISION FOR THE SINNING OF BELIEVERSCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESFIRMLY does St. John declare that the Christian should not sin, and must not sin. But he clearly recognises that Christians do actually sin through frailty. And he presents the consolation which is found in the gracious provision for dealing with Christian sins, both in their relation to God, and in their effects upon Christians themselves.1 John 2:1. Little children.—Suitable to such an aged and honoured teacher, such a father... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1

1 John 2:1 I. Let that be your aim: to "sin not." Let it be deliberately set before you as your fixed and settled purpose that you are not to sin, not merely that you are to sin as little as you can, but that you are not to sin at all. II. But not only would I have you to make this your aim: I would have your aim accomplished and realised. And therefore I write these things unto you, that ye sin not. We must assume it to be possible not to sin when we walk in the open fellowship of God. We are... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1-2

1 John 2:1-2 Christ our Righteousness. This short, pregnant passage stands in one of the inner sanctuaries of the Bible. This first epistle of St. John is very possibly the latest page of Scripture in date. Assuredly in it the Holy Spirit takes the reader into the last recesses of spiritual life and experience; He leads him into the most penetrating and searching views of holiness, and obedience, and love. A tone and air of serene yet awful purity, at once most spiritual and most importunately... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1-3

1 John 2:1-3 The True Idea of Man. I. St. John had a special reason for using this tender phrase, "my little children," in this place. All sin is connected by the Apostle with the loss of fellowship. A man shuts himself up in himself. He denies that he has anything to do with God; he denies that he has anything to do with his brother. That is what he calls walking in darkness. The inclination to walk in darkness, to choose darkness rather than light, is sin. We become aware of this inclination;... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - 1 John 2:1-2

DISCOURSE: 2433THE ADVOCACY AND ATONEMENT OF CHRIST1 John 2:1-2. If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: and he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.THERE are two extremes to which men are apt to incline, namely, presumption and despair; and against both of these the Gospel is designed to guard us. The ungodly world at large imagine that God will never execute his threatened judgments: and some... read more

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