1 John 2:7-9

International Standard Version

We Must Obey God’s Commandments

⁷ Dear friends, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. This old commandment is the word you have heard. ⁸ On the other hand, I am writing to you a new commandment that is truly in him and in you. For the darkness is fading away, and the true light is already shining.

⁹ The person who says that he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.