1 John 2:1

World English Bible (2000)

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τεκνία μου, ταῦτα γράφω ὑμῖν, ἵνα μὴ ἁμάρτητε. Καὶ ἐάν τις ἁμάρτῃ, παράκλητον ἔχομεν πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα, Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν δίκαιον:

Transliteration

Teknia my, these graphō to you, hina not you might hamartēte. And if anyone might hamartē, paraklēton we have pros the Patera, Iēsoun Christon dikaion:

Grammar Details

• *Teknia*: vocative, neuter, plural - little children/beloved ones
• *graphō*: present, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I write/am writing
• *hina*: subordinating conjunction introducing purpose clause - so that/in order that
• *hamartēte*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 2nd person plural - you might sin
• *hamartē*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 3rd person singular - might sin
• *paraklēton*: accusative, masculine, singular - advocate/helper/comforter
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - toward/with/in relation to
• *Patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *Iēsoun*: accusative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christon*: accusative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *dikaion*: accusative, masculine, singular - righteous/just

Word Meanings

• *Teknia*: little children/beloved ones/dear children
• *graphō*: write/am writing/record
• *paraklēton*: advocate/comforter/helper/intercessor/counselor
• *pros*: toward/with/before/in the presence of/in relation to
• *dikaion*: righteous/just/upright/innocent

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:34 : 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
• 1 Tim 2:5 : 5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
• 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• John 8:11 : 11 She said, "No one, Lord." Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."
• 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Titus 2:11-13 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; 13 looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ;
• 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• 1 John 3:18 : 18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.
• 1 John 4:4 : 4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; 2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God. 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
• Heb 7:24-26 : 24 But he, because he lives forever, has his priesthood unchangeable. 25 Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them. 26 For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
• 1 John 2:12-13 : 12 I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. 13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
• Gal 4:19 : 19 My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you--
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• John 6:27 : 27 Don't work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him."
• John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
• Ezek 3:21 : 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man, that the righteous not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live, because he took warning; and you have delivered your soul.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 Turning to the disciples, he said, "All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him."
• John 5:14 : 14 Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, "Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you."
• John 5:19-26 : 19 Jesus therefore answered them, "Most certainly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. 20 For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 22 For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him. 24 "Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 25 Most certainly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God's voice; and those who hear will live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself.
• John 5:36 : 36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• Eph 2:18 : 18 For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
• Eph 4:26 : 26 "Be angry, and don't sin." Don't let the sun go down on your wrath,
• 1 John 2:28-29 : 28 Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.
• 1 John 3:5 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• 1 Tim 3:14 : 14 These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;
• 1 Cor 4:14-15 : 14 I don't write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. 15 For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the Good News.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ hasn't entered into holy places made with hands, which are representations of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us;
• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
• Jas 3:9 : 9 With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
• 1 Pet 1:15-19 : 15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, "You shall be holy; for I am holy." 17 If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man's work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear: 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a faultless and pure lamb, the blood of Christ;
• 1 Pet 2:22 : 22 who did not sin, "neither was deceit found in his mouth."
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 1:3-4 : 3 that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ. 4 And we write these things to you, that our joy may be fulfilled.
• 1 John 5:21 : 21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• John 21:5 : 5 Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."
• Rom 6:1-2 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
• Rom 6:15 : 15 What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!
• John 13:33 : 33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.
• Ps 4:4 : 4 Stand in awe, and don't sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still. Selah.