John 2
Berean Study Bible
Jesus Our Advocate
1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours alone, but also for the sins of the whole world.
"We have an Advocate: God’s desire is that you may not sin. Yet if we do, there is provision made – an Advocate, a defense lawyer on our side. Our Advocate is Jesus Christ Himself." (Guzik)
Propitiation or atoning;
“The word implies that Christ has, as our sin-offering, reconciled God and us by nothing else but by His voluntary death as a sacrifice: has by this averted God’s wrath from us.” (Alford)
Sin is sin and sin affects our relationship with God, but I think there is a difference from outwardly and inwardly sinning. "Outwardly" (spills over-outward appearance) affects yourself and others, "inwardly" affects yourself but can eventually consume you so badly it spills-flows outward for all to see.
If we could only SEE how our "outwardly" sin turns others from Chirst!
The world would call us a hypocrite!
Would we not sin?
Blessings, David
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