1 John 2:7-14

1 John 1 1 John 3

1 John 2:7-14 New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

A New Commandment

⁷Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. ⁸Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because^[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister,^[b] is still in the darkness. ¹⁰Whoever loves a brother or sister^[c] lives in the light, and in such a person^[d] there is no cause for stumbling. ¹¹But whoever hates another believer^[e] is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.

¹²I am writing to you, little children,
    because your sins are forgiven on account of his name.
¹³I am writing to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.
I am writing to you, young people,
    because you have conquered the evil one.
¹⁴I write to you, children,
    because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
    because you know him who is from the beginning.
I write to you, young people,
    because you are strong
    and the word of God abides in you,
        and you have overcome the evil one.

Footnotes:

1 John 2:8 Or that
1 John 2:9 Gk hating a brother
1 John 2:10 Gk loves a brother
1 John 2:10 Or in it
1 John 2:11 Gk hates a brother

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