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1 John 2:8

1 John 2:8
Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Again, a new commandment I write unto you,.... Which is the same with the former, considered in different respects. The command of brotherly love is a new one; that is, it is an excellent one, as a…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Again, a new commandment I write unto you - “And yet, that which I write to you, and particularly enjoin on you, deserves in another sense to be called a new commandment, though it has been also…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Which thing is true in him and in you - It is true that Christ loved the world so well as to lay down his life for it; and it was true in them, in all his faithful followers at that time, who were…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

1 John 2:7-11

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true Or, Again, as a new commandment I write unto you a thing which is true. Or, Again, a new commandment write I unto you, namely that which…