1 John 2:8 Cross References - BBE

⁸ Again, I give you a new law, which is true in him and in you; for the night is near its end and the true light is even now shining out.

¹ Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; who is then a cause of fear to me? the Lord is the strength of my life; who is a danger to me?

⁹ For with you is the fountain of life: in your light we will see light.

¹¹ The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

¹¹ For, see, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; ¹² The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;

² The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

¹ Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you. ² For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you. ³ And nations will come to your light, and kings to your bright dawn.

² But to you who give worship to my name, the sun of righteousness will come up with new life in its wings; and you will go out, playing like young oxen full of food.

¹⁶ The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

⁷⁹ To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

⁴ What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

¹² Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

³⁵ Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

⁴⁶ I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

¹² This is the law I give you: Have love one for another, even as I have love for you. ¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do. ¹⁵ No longer do I give you the name of servants; because a servant is without knowledge of what his master is doing: I give you the name of friends, because I have given you knowledge of all the things which my Father has said to me.

³⁰ Those times when men had no knowledge were overlooked by God; but now he gives orders to all men in every place to undergo a change of heart:

¹⁸ To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

¹² The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

⁴ Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. ⁵ For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. ⁶ Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

⁹ For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.

¹ Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children; ² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

⁸ For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

⁴ But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: ⁵ For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark. ⁶ So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. ⁷ For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; ⁸ But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

¹⁰ But has now been made clear by the revelation of our Saviour Christ Jesus, who put an end to death and made life unending come to light through the good news,

²¹ Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

¹ So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin; ² So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God. ³ Because for long enough, in times past, we have been living after the way of the Gentiles, given up to the desires of the flesh, to drinking and feasting and loose behaviour and unclean worship of images;

¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. ¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

¹¹ My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

²¹ And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.