1 John 2:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.
  • 2 Pet 1:9 : 9 For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
  • Rom 2:18-21 : 18 and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babies, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth. 21 You therefore who teach another, don't you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn't steal, do you steal?
  • 1 John 3:13-17 : 13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him. 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

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  • 1 John 2:10-11
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    10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

    11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 2:8
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    8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

  • 1 John 3:10-18
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    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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

    12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

    13 Don't be surprised, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

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

    16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

    18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

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

    21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • John 3:19-21
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    19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

    20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

    21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."

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

    6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

    7 But 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.

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

  • John 15:23
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    23 He who hates me, hates my Father also.

  • John 1:5
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    5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

    5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

    6 he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.

  • Luke 11:35
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    35 Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

  • Matt 6:23
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    23 But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • John 11:10
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    10 But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 5:8
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    8 For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

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    35 Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15 Don't count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Matt 5:23
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    23 "If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

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    10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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    7 The world can't hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

  • John 1:9
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    9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

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    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

  • Prov 26:24
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    24 A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17 All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • John 15:18
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    18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.

  • Prov 10:18
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    18 He who hides hatred has lying lips. He who utters a slander is a fool.

  • Prov 8:36
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    36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

  • Jas 4:11
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    11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

  • Prov 26:26
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    26 His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

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    8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.