⁶ Whoever says he abides in Him ought [as ^[a]a personal debt] to walk and conduct himself in the same way in which He walked and conducted Himself.

⁷ Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the message which you have heard [the ^[b]doctrine of salvation through Christ].

⁸ Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true (is realized) in Him and in you, because the darkness (^[c]moral blindness) is clearing away and the true Light (^[d]the revelation of God in Christ) is already shining.