#a new commandment

I John 2:8. Again, 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. In the previous verse, John said that he was not writing a new commanment, but simply reviewing the one they already knew: Love God. Put no other gods before Him. But then Jesus came, and everything changed! Jesus was the fulfillment of the…

Zayin 49 Remember your word to your servant,     in which you have made me hope. 50 This is my comfort in my affliction,     that your promise gives me life. 51 The insolent utterly deride me,     but I do not turn away from your law. 52 When I think of your rules from of old,     I take comfort, O LORD. 53 Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked,     who forsake your law. 54 Your…

34 But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. 35 And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is…

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5 And now I ask you, dear lady—not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning—that we love one another. 6 And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it. – 2 John 1:5-6 ESV

Love one another. Now, where in the world would John have picked…