1 John 2:7-9

Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus Told Us to Love Others

⁷ My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. This command is the teaching you have already heard. ⁸ But what I write is also a new command. It is a true one; you can see its truth in Jesus and in yourselves. The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

⁹ Someone might say, “I am in the light,” but if they hate any of their brothers or sisters in God’s family, they are still in the darkness.