1 John 2:3-11

3And we can be sure that we know him if we obey his commandments.

4If someone claims, “I know God,” but doesn’t obey God’s commandments, that person is a liar and is not living in the truth.

5But those who obey God’s word truly show how completely they love him. That is how we know we are living in him.

6Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did.

7Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment—to love one another—is the same message you heard before.

8Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also are living it. For the darkness is disappearing, and the true light is already shining.

9If anyone claims, “I am living in the light,” but hates a fellow believer, that person is still living in darkness.

10Anyone who loves a fellow believer is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble.

11But anyone who hates a fellow believer is still living and walking in darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinded by the darkness.