1 John 2:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ αὐτὸς ἱλασμός ἐστιν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν: οὐ περὶ τῶν ἡμετέρων δὲ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ περὶ ὅλου τοῦ κόσμου.

Transliteration

And he hilasmos estin peri the hamartiōn of us: not peri the ours de only, alla also peri whole the kosmou.

Grammar Details

• *hilasmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - propitiation/atoning sacrifice
• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - is/exists
• *peri*: preposition with genitive - concerning/about/for
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - sins
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but/rather
• *kosmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - world/universe/system

Word Meanings

• *hilasmos*: propitiation/atoning sacrifice/expiation/means of forgiveness
• *peri*: concerning/about/for/with regard to
• *kosmou*: world/universe/humankind/worldly system/order

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
• 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
• John 4:42 : 42 and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
• John 11:51-52 : 51 Now this he said not of himself: but, being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; 52 and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God that are scattered abroad.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also {G3958} suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• John 1:29 : 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus {G5547} his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• John 12:32 : 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
• 2 Cor 5:18-21 : 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through {G2424} Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. 21 {G1063} Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.