5. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:
6. whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did.
7. Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
8. Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.