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1 John 2:7-11

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.
8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[a] is still in the darkness.
10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[b] lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.
11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

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Cross References 13

  • 1. S 1 Corinthians 10:14
  • 2. ver 24; 1 John 3:11,23; 1 John 4:21; 2Jn 5,6
  • 3. S John 13:34
  • 4. Romans 13:12; Hebrews 10:25
  • 5. John 1:9
  • 6. Ephesians 5:8; 1 Thessalonians 5:5
  • 7. ver 11; Leviticus 19:17; 1Jn 3:10,15,16; 1 John 4:20,21
  • 8. 1 John 1:5
  • 9. 1 John 3:14
  • 10. ver 11; Psalms 119:165
  • 11. S ver 9
  • 12. S 1 John 1:6
  • 13. John 11:9; John 12:35

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. The Greek word for "brother or sister" ("adelphos" ) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verse 11; and in 3:15, 17; 4:20; 5:16.
  • [b]. The Greek word for "brother and sister" ("adelphos" ) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in 3:10; 4:20, 21.
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