1 John 2:2
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
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In Context
3This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.
Cross References
John 1:29The next day, he saw Yeshua coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
John 11:51Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation,
Romans 3:25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
1 John 1:7But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Yeshua the Messiah his Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Saviour of the world.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:2-3
Christ the Propitiation. ( a. d. 80.) 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. These verses relate to the concluding subject of the foregoing chapter, in which the apostle proceeds upon the supposition of the real Christian's sin. And here he gives them both dissuasion and support. 1. Dissuasion.… Read the whole commentary →