My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous.
we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: God in His infinite wisdom has provided a means by which our fellowship with Him can remain unbroken through Jesus, our "Advocate." "Advocate" comes from the same Greek word that is translated "Comforter" in John 14:16; John 14:26; John 15:26; John 16:7. The word is parakletos and is one of the titles of the Holy Spirit. It literally means, "one who is called to another’s side to aid him." Jesus is one "Comforter," and the Holy Spirit is "another Comforter" (John 14:16). Coffman very aptly says, "In both cases, the Comforter is for the advantage and encouragement of the Christians, Christ with the Father, the Holy Spirit with the Christians" (368). The Christian has one Comforter Who sits at the right hand of God (Hebrews 1:3) and "another Comforter" Who indwells his heart (Galatians 4:6). "Advocate" in our text is, as Wuest says, "...in a forensic sense ’one who undertakes and champions your cause’ " (109). John pictures Jesus as our lawyer pleading our case, one who must "defend" us from sin. Sin is presented under various figures in the scriptures: as moral impurity that must be cleansed, as a debt that must be paid, and as a disease that must be cured.