1 John 2:1-11 - Keeping The New Commandment
1 My little children, I write these things unto you, that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2 And He is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
3 And by this we know that we have known Him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know Him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whosoever keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: and by this we know that we are in Him. 6 He that saith, he abideth in Him, ought himself also so to walk even as He walked.
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 though I write it again as a new commandment, which is truth in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
9 Now he that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is still in darkness: 10 whereas, he that loveth his brother, abideth in the light, and is in no danger of stumbling. 11 But he, that hateth his brother, is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not where he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.