1 John 2:8

Yet the love command is also new, made real in Christ and in believers as the darkness fades and the true light shines. Christ inaugurates a new era of love.

Cross-references · 30

• Eph 5:8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Rom 13:12The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• John 13:34A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.
• John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• 2 Cor 4:4–6The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
• John 12:46I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should remain in darkness.
• John 1:9The true Light who gives light to every man was coming into the world.
• John 1:4–5In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
• 1 Jn 4:21And we have this commandment from Him: Whoever loves God must love his brother as well.
• 1 Th 5:4–8But you, brothers, are not in the darkness so that this day should overtake you like a thief.
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• 2 Tim 1:10And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
• Eph 5:1–2Be imitators of God, therefore, as beloved children,
• Isa 60:1–3Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
• 1 Jn 4:11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Ps 36:9For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
• Ps 27:1Of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—whom shall I dread?
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace.”
• 1 Jn 3:14–16We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
• Acts 17:30Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
• John 15:12–15This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
• John 12:35Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
• Isa 9:2The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.
• Song 2:11–12For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.
• Matt 4:16the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death, a light has dawned.”
• Ps 84:11For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
• 1 Pet 1:21Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God.
• 1 Pet 4:1–3Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

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