SCRIPTURE
1 John 2:7-17
Berean Standard Bible. Enter a book and chapter, or a verse range.
- 2:7
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
- 2:8
Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.
- 2:9
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
- 2:10
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.
- 2:11
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
- 2:12
I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
- 2:13
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. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
- 2:14
I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
- 2:15
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 2:16
For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
- 2:17
The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.