Jan 27, 2022
7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[a] is still in the darkness. 10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[b] lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
12 I am writing to you, dear
children,
because your sins have been forgiven on account
of his name.
13 I am writing to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the
beginning.
I am writing to you, young
men,
because you have overcome the evil
one.
14 I write to
you, dear children,
because you know the Father.
I write to you, fathers,
because you know him who is from the
beginning.
I write to you, young men,
because you are strong,
and the word of God lives in
you,
and you have overcome the evil
one.
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father[c] is not in them. 16 For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.