1 John 2:1-11 - Keeping The New Commandment

¹ My little children, these things I write to you that you may not sin. But if any one has sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous, ² and he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for all the world.

³ And by this we know that we have known him, if we keep his commandments. ⁴ He that says, I have known him, and keeps not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; ⁵ but whoever keeps his word, in him truly is the love of God perfected. By this we know that we are in him. ⁶ He that says he continues in him, ought also himself so to walk as he walked.

⁷ Beloved, I write not a new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you heard. ⁸ Again, a new commandment I write you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past and the true light now appears.

⁹ He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness till now. ¹⁰ He that loves his brother continues in the light, and there is no offense in him; ¹¹ but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.