1 John 2:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. This is the way we may know that we are in union with him:(A) 6 whoever claims to abide in him ought to live [just] as he lived.
The New Commandment.[a] 7 Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.(B)
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- 2:7–11 The author expresses the continuity and freshness of mutual charity in Christian experience. Through Christ the commandment of love has become the light defeating the darkness of evil in a new age. All hatred as darkness is incompatible with the light and Christian life. Note also the characteristic Johannine polemic in which a positive assertion is emphasized by the negative statement of its opposite.
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