1 John 2:7

Brothers, I am not writing you a new commandment, but an old commandment, which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the message you have heard from the beginning.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

In Context

6Whoever says he abides in him ought to walk just as he walked.

8Yet I am writing you a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:37Jesus said to him, “ ‘Yoʋ shall love the Lord yoʋr God with all yoʋr heart, with all yoʋr soul, and with all yoʋr mind.’

Acts 17:19So they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that yoʋ are presenting?

Galatians 5:13You were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

1 John 2:24Therefore let what you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you have heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:4-7

The Believer's Duty. ( a. d. 80.) 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. These verses may seem to relate to the seventh verse of the former chapter , between which and these verses there… Read the whole commentary →

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