[a]Again, a new commandment I write unto you, that [b]which is true in him: and also in you: for the darkness is past, and that true light now shineth.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:8 He addeth that the doctrine indeed is old, but it is now after a sort new both in respect of Christ, and also of us: in whom he through the Gospel, engraveth his Law effectually, not in tables of stone, but in our minds.
  2. 1 John 2:8 Which thing (to wit, that the doctrine is new of which I write unto you) is true in him and in you.

Yet I am writing you a new command;(A) its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing(B) and the true light(C) is already shining.(D)

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20 [a]If any man say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: [b]for how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen?

21 (A)[c]And this commandment have we of him, that he that loveth God, should love his brother also.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:20 As he showed that the love of our neighbor cannot be separate from the love wherewith God loveth us, because this last engendereth the other: so he denieth that the other kind of love wherewith we love God, can be separate from the love of our neighbor: whereof it followeth, that they lie impudently which say they worship God, and yet regard not their neighbor.
  2. 1 John 4:20 The first reason taken of comparison, why we cannot hate our neighbor and love God, to wit, because that he that cannot love his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?
  3. 1 John 4:21 A second reason, why God cannot be hated and our neighbor loved, because the selfsame Lawmaker commanded both to love him and our neighbor.

20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(A) is a liar.(B) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(C) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(D) 21 And he has given us this command:(E) Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.(F)

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