1 John 2:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

A New Commandment

⁷ Beloved, 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. 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)