1 John 2:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.(A) 8 And yet I do write a new commandment to you, which holds true in him and among you,[a] for the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.(B) 9 Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.(C)
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- 2:8 Which holds true in him and among you: literally, “a thing that holds true in him and in you.”
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