1 John 2:3-14

2. Yet for the claimant of the divine purity the test is abstinence from all sinning, 1 John 2:3-14.

It might at first be supposed that a ready advocate and propitiation for the believer’s sins might furnish easy license for sin. And separating that fact from its proper conditions, one may abuse it for antinomianism. St. Paul met the same objection, that we may abound in sin that the grace of propitiation may abound, in the same way as John does here. Romans 6:1, where see notes. Our adherence to Christ is incompatible with a purpose to abound in sin.