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Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.
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but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love of God is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.
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He that says he abides in him ought, even as *he* walked, himself also [so] to walk.
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Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.
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Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.
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He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.