1 John 2:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • John 12:40 : 40 He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.
  • 2 Cor 3:14 : 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day, the same veil remains untaken away in the reading of the old covenant; which veil is done away in Christ.
  • 2 Cor 4:4 : 4 In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of those who do not believe, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:

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    8Again, a new commandment I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.

    9He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

    10He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

  • 1 John 3:10-18
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    10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

    11For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

    12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

    13Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

    16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

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    19This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

    20Everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

    21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.

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    5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

    6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:

    7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.

    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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    10But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.

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    34The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is full of light; but when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

    35Take heed therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness.

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    5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

  • Prov 4:19
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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

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    35Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

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    12I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.

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    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

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    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    6He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked.

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    4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

    5You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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    18Having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

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