8Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.


In Context

5 But if anyone obeys his word, God's love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him:

6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.

1st John 2:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:8Again, 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:8Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8Again, I write a new commandment to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light already shines.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:8Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:8again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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