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1 John 2:6-8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
1 John 2:6-8
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
6 whoever says, ‘I abide in him’, ought to walk just as he walked.
A New Commandment
7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word that you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because[a] the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
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1 John 2:6-8
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1 John 2:6-8
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6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.(A)
7 Dear friends,(B) I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning.(C) This old command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new command;(D) its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing(E) and the true light(F) is already shining.(G)
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