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But whoever is keeping His word, truly the love of God has been perfected[a] in this one. By this we know that we are in Him: the one claiming to be abiding in Him ought just as that One walked also himself thus to be walking.

If We Are Loving One Another, We Are Abiding In The Light

Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old[b] commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:5 Or, brought-to-completion.
  2. 1 John 2:7 Some think it is old in the sense that it is in the Law of Moses; others, in that it was spoken by Jesus Himself; others, in that the readers have had it since they first became Christians.

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