Verse 34
34. a new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another—This was the new feature of it. Christ's love to His people in giving His life a ransom for them was altogether new, and consequently as a Model and Standard for theirs to one another. It is not, however, something transcending the great moral law, which is "the old commandment" ( :-, and see on :-), but that law in a new and peculiar form. Hence it is said to be both new and old (1 John 2:7; 1 John 2:8).
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