1My 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:
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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. …
But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)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. He would leave no room for sin: “ My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not , 1 John 2:1. The design or purport of this letter, the design of what I have j…
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