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• {"n":"John 13:34","s":"A new commandment. The word for new means fresh in kind, not recent in time.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-13-34","r":"John 13:34","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads new commandment."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**A new car.** **A new lease of life.** One means recently made. The other means a fresh kind of the same thing. English uses one word for both."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Kainos is new in kind, fresh, of a different quality. Neos is new in time, recent. The commandment to love is not chronologically new, since Leviticus 19:18 has it, and kainos is the adjective that lets it be both old and new, which is exactly the point 1 John 2:7-8 makes."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English new covers both, so the paradox in 1 John reads as a contradiction rather than as a play on two available adjectives."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"A New Testament writer who seems to contradict himself about whether something is new is usually just switching adjectives; check which one he used."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"New commandment is universal."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03ba\u03b1\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2 kainos \u00b7 G2537"}],"src":["kainos against neos: Matthew 9:17 uses both in one verse","Leviticus 19:18 as the older commandment","1 John 2:7-8 on old and new"]}