1 John 2:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

1 John 2:11

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

Psalm 82:5

They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

2 Peter 1:9

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

1 John 2:4

The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

1 John 1:6

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

Leviticus 19:17

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom said nothing to his brother Amnon, good or bad: for he was full of hate for him, because he had taken his sister Tamar by force.

Acts 1:15

And in those days Peter got up among the brothers there were about one hundred and twenty of them, and said,

1 John 3:10

In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.