1 John 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Indeed, we have this Command from God-- 'He who loves God must also love his Brother.'

I give you a new commandment--Love one another; love one another as I have loved you.

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.

Which

We know that we have passed out of Death into Life, because we love our Brothers. The man who does not love remains in a state of Death.

Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.

For you do not forget the loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ--how that for your sakes, although he was rich, he became poor, so that you also might become rich through his poverty.

Therefore imitate God, as his dear children,

who, through him, are faithful to God who raised him from the dead and gave him honour, so that your faith and hope are now in God.

Since, then, Christ suffered in body, arm yourselves with the same resolve as he; for he who has suffered in body has ceased to sin,

The darkness

The people who were dwelling in darkness Have seen a great Light, And, for those who were dwelling in the shadow-land of Death, A Light has risen!'

To give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, And guide our feet into the way of peace."

I have come as a Light into the world, that no one who believes in me should remain in the darkness.

True, God looked with indulgence on the days of men's ignorance, but now he is announcing to every one everywhere the need for repentance,

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

The night is almost gone; the day is near. Therefore let us have done with the deeds of Darkness, and arm ourselves with the weapons of Light.

Men whose minds have been blinded by the God of this Age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the Good News of the glory of the Christ, who is the very incarnation of God, should not shine for them.

For, although you were once in Darkness, now, by your union with the Lord, you are in the Light. Live as 'Children of Light'- -

For you all are 'Sons of Light' and 'Sons of the Day.' We have nothing to do with night, or darkness.

And the

That which came into being in him was Life; and the Life was the Light of Man;

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

"Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going.

and has now been made apparent through the Appearing of our Saviour, Christ Jesus; who has made an end of Death, and has brought Life and Immortality to light by that Good News,

General references

This is my command--Love one another, as I have loved you.