5. But if someone obeys God’s teaching, then God’s love has truly arrived at its goal in him. This is how we know that we are following God:
6. Whoever says that God lives in him must live as Jesus lived.
7. My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you. It is the same command you have had since the beginning. It is the teaching you have already heard.
8. But I am writing a new command to you. This command is true; you can see its truth in Jesus and in yourselves. The darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.
9. Someone says, “I am in the light.” But if he hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
10. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him that will cause him to do wrong.