Daily Reading for Personal Growth, 40 Days with God

⁷ Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.

⁸ Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.

⁹ He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.

¹⁰ He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.

¹¹ But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.