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1 John 2:2
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1 My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, awe have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.  
2 And aHe Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but balso for the whole world.  

The Test of Knowing Him

3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.
4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a aliar, and the truth is not in him.  
5 But awhoever keeps His word, truly the love of God1 is perfected bin him. By this we know that we are in Him.  
6 aHe who says he abides in Him bought himself also to walk just as He walked.  
7 1Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had afrom the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard2 from the beginning.  
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1 John 2:2

And he (kai autov). He himself in his own person, both priest and sacrifice (Hebrews 9:14).

The propitiation (ilasmov). Late substantive from ilaskomai (Luke 18:13; Hebrews 2:17), in LXX, Philo, Plutarch, in N.T. only here and I John 4:10. Christ himself is the means of propitiation for (peri concerning) our sins. See ilasthrion in Romans 3:15.

For the whole world (peri olou tou kosmou). It is possible to supply the ellipsis here of twn amartiwn (the sins of) as we have it in Hebrews 7:27, but a simpler way is just to regard "the whole world" as a mass of sin (I John 5:19). At any rate, the propitiation by Christ provides for salvation for all (Hebrews 2:9) if they will only be reconciled with God (II Corinthians 5:19-21).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 John 2:2:

John 10:11
Romans 3:25
2 Corinthians 5:18
Ephesians 5:2
Hebrews 2:17
1 John 4:10
Revelation 9:10

 

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