1 John 2:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

1 John 2:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom spake unto Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are moved.

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.

John 9:41

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.

Acts 1:15

And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

2 Peter 1:9

For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

1 John 1:6

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

1 John 2:11

But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:4

He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him:

1 John 3:10

In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

1 John 4:20

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.