1 John 2:8-11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁸ Yet 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.^{(A) 9} Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.^{(B) 10} Whoever loves a brother or sister abides in the light, and in such a person^[b] there is no cause for stumbling. ¹¹ But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.^(C)