1 John 2:1-11 - Keeping The New Commandment
1 MY dear children, these things I write to you, that ye should not sin. And if any of us sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he himself is the propitiatory victim for our sins: and indeed not for ours only, but for the whole world.
3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and in him the truth is not. 5 But whosoever keepeth his word, verily in him is the love of God perfected: by this we know that we are in him. 6 He who saith that he abideth in him, ought as he walked, even so himself to walk.
7 Brethren, I write not a new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which is a true thing in him, and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light is now shining.
9 He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother is in the light, and occasion of stumbling in him there is none. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he is departing, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.