1 John 2:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Whoever says he is in the Light and [yet] hates his brother [Christian, born-again child of God his Father] is in darkness even until now.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

Common English Bible

⁹ The one who claims to be in the light while hating a brother or sister is in the darkness even now.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Whoever declares himself to be in the light, and yet hates his brother, is in the darkness even now.

1 John 2:9 Cross References

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.

Acts 1:15

And in those days Peter, rising up in the midst of the disciples (altogether the number of names was about a hundred and twenty), said,

2 Peter 1:9

For [he] who lacks these things is blind, being shortsighted, having forgotten the cleansing of his past sins.

1 John 1:6

If we claim that we have fellowship with Him, and we are walking in the darkness, we are lying, and are not practicing the truth.

1 John 2:11

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.

1 John 2:4

He who says, "I have come to know Him,"and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

1 John 4:20

If anyone claims, "I love God,"and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how is it possible [for him] to love God whom he has not seen?