“Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This commandment – to love one another – is the same message you heard before. Yet is 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.
If anyone claims,’I am lying in the light’, but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is still living in darkness. Anyone who loves another brother or sister is living in the light and does not cause others to stumble. But anyone who hates another brother or sister is still living and walking darkness. Such a person does not know the way to go, having been blinding by the darkness. (1 John 2: vv. 7-11, NLT)