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1 John 2:7-8
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1 John 2:7-8
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The New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you (A)no new commandment, but (B)an old commandment (C)that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 At the same time, it is (D)a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because[a] (E)the darkness is passing away and (F)the true light is already shining.
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1 John 2:7-8
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1 John 2:7-8
New International Version
7 Dear friends,(A) I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.(B) This old command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new command;(C) its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing(D) and the true light(E) is already shining.(F)
1 John 2:7-8
King James Version
1 John 2:7-8
King James Version
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
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1 John 3:11
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1 John 3:11
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Love One Another
11 For (A)this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, (B)that we should love one another.
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1 John 3:11
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1 John 3:11
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More on Love and Hatred
11 For this is the message you heard(A) from the beginning:(B) We should love one another.(C)
1 John 3:11
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1 John 3:11
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11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
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2 John 5
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2 John 5
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5 And now I ask you, dear lady—(A)not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—(B)that we love one another.
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2 John 5
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2 John 5
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5 And now, dear lady, I am not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning.(A) I ask that we love one another.
2 John 5
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2 John 5
King James Version
5 And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another.
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