1 John 2:2
Good News Translation
And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone.

New Revised Standard Version
and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

Contemporary English Version
Christ is the sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world's people.

New American Bible
He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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1 John 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another: And the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

1 John 4:10 In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

Romans 3:25,26 Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins, . . .

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

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1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God and the whole world is seated in wickedness.

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

John 4:42 And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 11:51,52 And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation. . . .

2 Corinthians 5:18-21 But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. . . .

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Context
Jesus Our Advocate
1My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. But if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the just. 2And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world. 3And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments.…
Cross References
Leviticus 16:10
But that whose lot was to be the emissary goat, he shall present before the Lord, that he may pour prayers upon him, and let him go into the wilderness.

John 4:42
And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 11:51
And this he spoke not of himself: but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation.

Romans 3:25
Whom God hath proposed to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to the shewing of his justice, for the remission of former sins,

Hebrews 2:17
Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

1 John 3:5
And you know that he appeared to take away our sins: and in him there is no sin.

1 John 4:10
In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

1 John 2:1
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