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)