1 John 2:2

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 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins: the adding of these words, shows that our Lord grounds his intercession for pardon of sin unto penitent believers, upon his having made atonement for them before; and therefore that he doth not herein merely supplicate for favour, but (which is the proper business of an advocate) plead law and right; agreeably to what is said above, 1 John 1:9. And not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world; nor is his undertaking herein limited to any... 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 2:1-2

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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:2

1 John 2:2 I. The Christian world here presents to us opposite extremes of opinion, as well as diversities. If we except, on the one hand, those who put a limitation on the intrinsic value of the Redeemer's sacrifice, who, by a kind of arithmetical process, estimate the worth of atonement by the number of those whom it actually saves, and, on the other hand, those who infer universal salvation as a necessary consequence from the atonement of Jesus Christ, the remaining discrepancies are rather... 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

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - 1 John 2:2

propitiation (Greek - ἱλασμός , that which propitiates). (See Scofield " :-") . the sins Omit words "the sins.". world kosmos = mankind. (See Scofield " :-") . read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - 1 John 2:1-11

Chapter 2My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not ( 1 John 2:1 ).Now, he is talking about the purpose of writing is to bring you into fellowship with God, but the thing that breaks fellowship with God is sin. In Isaiah 59 , "God's hand is not short that he cannot save, neither is his ear heavy that he cannot hear. But your sins have separated you from God" ( Isaiah 59:1-2 ). Always the effect of sin. God said to Adam, "In the day that thou sinneth thou shall surely... read more

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