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The Command to Love Others

My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you but an old command you have had from the beginning. It is the teaching you have already heard. But also I am writing a new command to you, and you can see its truth in Jesus and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

Anyone who says, “I am in the light,”[a] but hates a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:9 light Here, it is used as a symbol of God’s goodness or truth.

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