1 John 2:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

again, 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;

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  • Rom 13:12 : 12 the night did advance, and the day came nigh; let us lay aside, therefore, the works of the darkness, and let us put on the armour of the light;
  • Eph 5:8 : 8 for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,
  • John 13:34 : 34 `A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;
  • John 1:9 : 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; 5 for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus -- Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus; 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
  • John 1:4-5 : 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men, 5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.
  • 1 John 4:21 : 21 and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • 1 Thess 5:4-8 : 4 and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; 5 all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness, 6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,
  • 2 Tim 1:10 : 10 and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,
  • 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.
  • 1 Pet 4:1-3 : 1 Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin, 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
  • 1 John 3:14-16 : 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. 15 Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;
  • 1 John 4:11 : 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 for ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that because of you he became poor -- being rich, that ye by that poverty may become rich.
  • Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • John 15:12-15 : 12 `This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you; 13 greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you; 15 no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.
  • Acts 17:30 : 30 the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, to turn `them' from darkness to light, and `from' the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that `is' toward me.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • John 12:46 : 46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
  • Ps 27:1 : 1 By David. Jehovah `is' my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah `is' the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid?
  • Ps 36:9 : 9 For with Thee `is' a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For a sun and a shield `is' Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
  • Song 2:11-12 : 11 For lo, the winter hath passed by, The rain hath passed away -- it hath gone. 12 The flowers have appeared in the earth, The time of the singing hath come, And the voice of the turtle was heard in our land,
  • Isa 9:2 : 2 The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.
  • Isa 60:1-3 : 1 Arise, be bright, for come hath thy light, And the honour of Jehovah hath risen on thee. 2 For, lo, the darkness doth cover the earth, And thick darkness the peoples, And on thee rise doth Jehovah, And His honour on thee is seen. 3 And come have nations to thy light, And kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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