1 John 2:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 John 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Again, a new commandment I write unto you - “And yet, that which I write to you, and particularly enjoin on you, deserves in another sense to be called a new commandment, though it has been also...
1 John 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(7) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, (h) which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. (7) He adds that the doctrine indeed is old, b...
1 John 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Obedience the Proof of Fellowship. Here John repeats in a positive way the teaching of the previous section. Conduct cannot be, as the false teachers claimed, a matter of indifference, for true kno...
1 John 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

true . App-175. is past . passes away. Greek. parago, as 1 John 2:17 . true . App-175. light . App-130. now . already. Greek. ede . shineth . App-106.
1 John 2:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 Again, a new commandment Interpreters do not appear to me to have attained the meaning of the Apostle. He says new, because God, as it were, renews it by daily suggesting it, so that the...
1 John 2:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2436 THE TRUE LIGHT 1 John 2:8 . The darkness is past, and the true light now shineth . OUR blessed Lord is supposed by many to have enlarged the demands of the moral law. That he sp...
1 John 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Which thing is true in him and in you - It is true that...
1 John 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Again,— Or, on the other hand. The apostle, as it were, checks himself for what he had said 1 John 2:7 . See the like use of the word παλιν, Matthew 4:7 . The same commandment may, upon differe...
1 John 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. A new commandment. It was "old," in that Christ...
1 John 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Advocacy of Christ and the Obligations of Believers 1. My little children] The diminutive implies the fatherly care which the aged Apostle felt for his disciples. Advocate ] The word thus tra...
1 John 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The fourth inference from the doctrine that God is Light analyses more accurately the general expression of 1 John 1:7 , walking in the light. If Christ is, as in 1 John 2:1-2 , the Paraclete and...
1 John 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Keeping His Commandment of Love 1 John 2:1-11 It is clearly possible to be kept from known and presumptuous sin. We shall be tempted, for that is an inevitable experience of life in this world;...
1 John 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Affirming that the purpose of his writing is that we sin not, the writer declared that even if we sin, provision is made by which it may be put away. The tests whereby we may know our relation to lig...
1 John 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 command...
1 John 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Again, a new commandment I write unto you ,.... Which is the same with the former, considered in different respects. The command of brotherly love is a new one; that is, it is an excellent one, as a...
1 John 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 8. A new commandment ] See Trapp on " Joh 13...
1 John 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I write no new commandment Ministers must avoid all suspicion and affectation of novelty in their doctrine. But an old commandment Concerning holiness of life, and loving one another. Which ye h...
1 John 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

“My children, these things I write to you in order that ye may not sin; and if anyone sin, we have a patron with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (JND). If we have seen some absolute, positive...
1 John 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Law of Love. A. D. 80. 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old comma...
1 John 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; Yet also he calls it a new commandment, as our Saviour did, 1 Thessalonians 13:34 , upon the subjoined accounts. Which thing is true; i.e. evident, or verified, fulfilled, exemplifie...
1 John 2:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Old Commandment and the New Commandment ( 1 John 2:7-11 ). Here John stresses the need to stand by what they have originally learned and experienced and by the Light that is already shining am...
1 John 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 2:8 . New commandment .—St. John seems to refer to his demand of love to the brethren, as the satisfactory sign of heart-obedience, son-like obedience to the...
1 John 2:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:8 A New Commandment. I. I will try to show you that this commandment is old, and yet new. But we may as well see, first of all, what the commandment is. John does not quite say in the te...
1 John 2:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:1-4 . 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: and he is the propitiation fo...
1 John 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:2 . He is the propitiation for our sin: ιλασμος, a ram, or other victim offered as an atoning sacrifice for sin. On Genesis 15:9 , the rabbins make a distinction between the heifer, the...
1 John 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 John 2:1 , 1 John 2:2 Moreover, walking in the light involves accepting the propitiation wrought through Jesus Christ the Righteous. The connexion with the preceding is c...
1 John 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Abiding in the light:
1 John 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 3:14-16 ; 1 John 4:11 ; 1 John 4:21 ; 1 Peter 1:21 ; 1 Peter 4:1-3 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:5-8 ; 2 Corinthians 4:4-6 ; 2 Corinthians 8:9 ; 2 Timothy 1:10 ; Acts 17:30 ; Acts 26:18 ; Ep...
1 John 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Again, I do write a new commandment to you — Namely, with regard to loving one another. A commandment which, though it also was given long ago, yet is truly new in him and in you. It was exemplifie...

1 John 2:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 John 2:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 John 2:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 John 2:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 John 2:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 John 2:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 John 2:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 John 2:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 John 2:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 John 2:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 John 2:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 John 2:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 John 2:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 2:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 2:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 2:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 John 2:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 John 2:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 2:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes