1 John 2:11
But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.
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- John 12:35 : 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.
- 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
- Rev 3:17 : 17 For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.
- Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
- John 12:40 : 40 He has made their eyes blind, and their hearts hard; for fear that they might see with their eyes and get knowledge with their hearts, and be changed, and I might make them well.
- 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were made hard: for to this very day at the reading of the old agreement the same veil is still unlifted; though it is taken away in Christ.
- 2 Cor 4:4 : 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.
- Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
- 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
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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.
9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
10 He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him.
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10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.
11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;
12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
13 Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you.
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.
17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?
18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.
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20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?
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.
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19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.
20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
21 But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.
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5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
6 If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:
7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.
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10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.
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23 But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
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34 The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.
35 So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.
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5 And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.
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19 The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
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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.
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12 I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.
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23 He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.
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11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.
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23 If then you are making an offering at the altar and there it comes to your mind that your brother has something against you,
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8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light
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15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
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9 For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.
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6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
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8 He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
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36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
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6 He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.
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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.
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18 Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
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7 It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.
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26 Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.
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17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort of sin.
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13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
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18 If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.
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12 Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.
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4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
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11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.