Third Millennium Bible TMB
New International Version NIV
7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the Word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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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 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth.
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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 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
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Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.
10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.
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Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.
11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
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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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