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 are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Rom 13:12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
• John 13:34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• John 1:9The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
• John 1:4–5In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
• 1 Jn 4:21This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.
• 1 Th 5:4–8But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
• Mal 4:2But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. You will go out, and leap like calves of the stall.
• 2 Tim 1:10but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who abolished death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Good News.
• Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• Isa 60:1–3“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you.
• 1 Jn 4:11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• Ps 36:9For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall 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, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• Ps 27:1By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• 1 Jn 3:14–16We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.
• Acts 17:30The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• John 15:12–15“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
• John 12:35Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Isa 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
• Song 2:11–12For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
• Matt 4:16the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
• Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
• 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
• 1 Pet 4:1–3Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;

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