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.
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Gill's Exposition
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you,.... Some understand this of faith, which this apostle calls a commandment, Jo1 3:23; but it rather intends the commandment of love, especially to the…
Barnes' Notes
Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you - That is, what I am now enjoining is not new. It is the same doctrine which you have always heard. There has been much difference of opinion as to what…
Adam Clarke
Brethren, I write no new commandment - There seems a contradiction between this and the next verse. But the apostle appears to speak, not so much of any difference in the essence of the precept…
The seventh verse may be supposed either to look backward to what immediately preceded (and then it is walking as Christ walked that is here represented as no new, but an old commandment; it is that…
Love of the Brethren
7 11. Walking in the light involves not only fellowship with God and with the brethren (1Jn 1:5-7), consciousness and confession of sin (1Jn 1:8-10), obedience by imitation of…
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