1 John 2:8

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Summary

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.

A new

1 John 4:21

John 13:34

John 15:12

Which

1 Peter 4:1

The darkness

And the

General references

John 15:12

Bible References

A new

besides, 'tis a commandment we have receiv'd from him, that he who would love God, must love his brother also.

a new commandment I give unto you, "that ye love one another; that you would have the same love for one another as I have had for you."

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Which

as for us, we know, that we have passed from a state of death to that of life, because we love our brethren: he that does not love his brother, is in a destructive state.

beloved, if God so loved us, we ought to love one another.

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

for you are sensible of the beneficence of our Lord Jesus Christ; powerful as he was, for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be made rich.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as his dear children; live together in love,

it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God.

Since then Christ has with respect to his mortal nature died for us, arm yourselves with this reflection, that he, who is dead with respect to sensuality, has renounced sin;

The darkness

the people which sat in darkness, saw a great light: and to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light is sprung up."

to enlighten those, who are in darkness, and in the shadow of death, and to direct our steps into the ways of peace."

I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me, might not abide in darkness.

God has been pleas'd to over-look this state of ignorance: but now he enjoins all men every where to repent:

and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and partake of the inheritance of the saints, by believing on me."

the night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore throw off the habits of darkness, and be invested with the ornaments of light.

to those unbelievers, whose minds the God of this world has so blinded, that the glorious lustre of the gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light:

you inherit the advantages of meridian light: we are not involv'd in the obscurity of night.

And the

the Life was produc'd in him, and the Life was the Light of men.

Jesus then having reassumed his discourse, said to them, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

Jesus answer'd them, yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have the light, lest darkness surprize you: for he that walketh in darkness, does not know whither he goes.

has now been display'd by the coming of Jesus Christ our saviour, who has defeated the power of death, by bringing a life of immortality to light thro' the gospel.

General references

this is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.