Keeping The New Commandment

[1] My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: [2] And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. [3] And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. [4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. [5] But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. [6] He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked. [7] Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. [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. [9] He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. [10] He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. [11] But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

• Church

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

• Assurance

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

This is the first and great commandment.

Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.