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And he is the atoning sacrifice[a] for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

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  1. 2:2 “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin.

And He [[a]that same Jesus Himself] is the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins, and not for ours alone but also for [the sins of] the whole world.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:2 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.