1 John 2:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

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  • 1 John 4:20 : 20 if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-3 : 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.
  • 2 Pet 1:9 : 9 for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins;
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;
  • Ps 82:5 : 5 They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.
  • John 9:41 : 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Rom 2:18-21 : 18 and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law, 19 and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness, 20 an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. 21 Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?
  • 1 John 3:13-17 : 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you; 14 we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. 15 Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, 16 in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; 17 and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

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  • 1 John 2:10-11
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    10he who is loving his brother, in the light he doth remain, and a stumbling-block in him there is not;

    11and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

  • 1 John 2:8
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    8again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

  • 1 John 3:10-18
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    10In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

    12not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

    13Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

    14we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

    15Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

    16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

    17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • 1 John 4:20-21
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    20if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

    21and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

  • John 3:19-21
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    19`And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

    20for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;

    21but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

  • 1 John 1:5-8
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    5And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;

    6if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

    7and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

    8if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

  • John 15:23
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    23`He who is hating me, doth hate also my Father;

  • John 1:5
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    5and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

    6He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

  • Luke 11:35
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    35take heed, then, lest the light that `is' in thee be darkness;

  • Matt 6:23
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    23but if thine eye may be evil, all thy body shall be dark; if, therefore, the light that `is' in thee is darkness -- the darkness, how great!

  • John 11:10
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    10and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

  • 2 John 1:9
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    9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

  • Eph 5:8
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    8for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

  • John 12:35
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    35Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;

  • 2 Thess 3:15
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    15and as an enemy count `him' not, but admonish ye `him' as a brother;

  • Matt 5:23
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    23`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 John 1:10
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    10if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

  • John 7:7
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    7the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

  • John 1:9
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    9He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

  • 1 John 3:6
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    6every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • Prov 26:24
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    24By his lips doth a hater dissemble, And in his heart he placeth deceit,

  • 1 John 5:17
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    17all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

  • John 15:18
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    18if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

  • Prov 10:18
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    18Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

  • Prov 8:36
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    36And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

  • 1 Thess 5:5
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    5all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

  • Jas 4:11
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    11Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

  • Prov 26:26
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    26Hatred is covered by deceit, Revealed is its wickedness in an assembly.

  • 1 John 4:8
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    8he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.