Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

³ And by this we know that we have come-to-know Him: if we are keeping His commandments. ⁴ The one claiming that “I have come-to-know Him” and not keeping His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in this one. ⁵ 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: ⁶ 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

⁷ 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. ⁸ Yet-again I am writing a new^[c] commandment to you, which^[d] is true^[e] in Him and in you, because^[f] the darkness is passing-away and the true Light^[g] is already shining. ⁹ The one claiming to be in the light and hating his brother is in the darkness until now. ¹⁰ The one loving his brother is abiding in the light, and there is no cause-of-falling in him. ¹¹ But the one hating his brother is in the darkness, and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness blinded his eyes.