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7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
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7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
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8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, becausethe darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
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8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
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9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.
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9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.
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10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.
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10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.
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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.
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