Our Advocate

John writes tenderly to believers: 'My 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.' An advocate is one who stands alongside another and speaks on their behalf. When a believer falls, the accuser is not the only voice heard in heaven; Jesus, the righteous one, pleads their cause on the ground of his own sacrifice, for 'he is the propitiation for our sins.' Paul says the same: Christ 'is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.'

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Strongest connections in Scripture

1 John 2 Romans 8

Key Passages

An Advocate with the Father

1 John 2:1-2

Jesus speaks for believers who sin, and his own sacrifice is the ground of their forgiveness.

M¹y 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:

² And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Who Also Maketh Intercession for Us

Romans 8:33-34

No charge can stand against God's people, because the risen Christ intercedes for them.

W³³ho shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

³⁴ 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.