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.

General references

Bible References

A new

1 John 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also.
John 13:34
A new commandment I give you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
John 15:12
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Which

1 John 3:14
We know, that we are passed from death to life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
John 15:12
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
Ephesians 5:1
Be ye therefore followers of God, as beloved children: And walk in love,
1 Peter 1:21
Who thro' him believe in God, that raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith and hope, might be in God.
1 Peter 4:1
Seeing then Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind:

The darkness

Matthew 4:16
beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles, The people who walked in darkness, saw a great light, and to them who sat in the region of the shadow of death, light is sprung up.
Luke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to direct our feet into the way of peace.
John 12:46
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me, may not continue in darkness.
Acts 17:30
The times of ignorance indeed God overlooked; but he now commandeth all men every where to repent.
Acts 26:18
and the Gentiles, to whom I now send thee, To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive through faith which is in me, forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
Romans 13:12
The night is far spent; the day is at hand, let us therefore put off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Whose unbelieving minds the god of this world hath blinded, lest the illumination of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine upon them.
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord:
1 Thessalonians 5:5
Ye are all children of the light and children of the day: we are not children of the night, nor of darkness.

And the

John 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world; he that followeth me, shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
John 12:35
Who is this Son of man? Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness overtake you, for he that walketh in darkness, knoweth not whither he goeth.
2 Timothy 1:10
But is now made manifest, by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

General references

John 15:12
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you.