Reading I
1 Jn 2:3-11

Beloved:
The way we may be sure that we know Jesus
is to keep his commandments.
Whoever says, "I know him," but does not keep his commandments
is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
But whoever keeps his word,
the love of God is truly perfected in him.
This is the way we may know that we are in union with him:
whoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked.

Beloved, I am writing no new commandment to you
but an old commandment that you had from the beginning.
The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
And yet I do write a new commandment to you,
which holds true in him and among you,
for the darkness is passing away,
and the true light is already shining.
Whoever says he is in the light,
yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.
Whoever loves his brother remains in the light,
and there is nothing in him to cause a fall.
Whoever hates his brother is in darkness;
he walks in darkness
and does not know where he is going
because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

*abide : 머무르다

 

Whoever claims to abide in him ought to walk just as he walked.

자기가 하느님 안에서 산다고 말하는 사람은 그리스도께서 사신 것처럼 살아야 합니다.

 

Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.

자기가 빛 속에서 산다고 말하면서 자기의 형제를 미워하는 자는 아직도 어둠 속에서 살고 있는 자입니다.