Yet I am writing you a new command;(A) its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing(B) and the true light(C) is already shining.(D)

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Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

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Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[a](A) is still in the darkness.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:9 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verse 11; and in 3:15, 17; 4:20; 5:16.

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

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