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Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard.
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Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
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He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.
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He who loves his brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling.
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But he who 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.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)
