1 John 2:11

Good News Translation

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

And Absalom hated Amnon so much for having raped his sister Tamar that he would no longer even speak to him.

Proverbs 4:19

The road of the wicked, however, is dark as night. They fall, but cannot see what they have stumbled over.

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise can see where they are going, and fools cannot.” But I also know that the same fate is waiting for us all.

Leviticus 19:17

“Do not bear a grudge against others, but settle your differences with them, so that you will not commit a sin because of them.

John 12:35

Jesus answered, “The light will be among you a little longer. Continue on your way while you have the light, so that the darkness will not come upon you; for the one who walks in the dark does not know where he is going.

John 12:40

“God has blinded their eyes and closed their minds, so that their eyes would not see, and their minds would not understand, and they would not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them.”

2 Corinthians 3:14

Their minds, indeed, were closed; and to this very day their minds are covered with the same veil as they read the books of the old covenant. The veil is removed only when a person is joined to Christ.

2 Corinthians 4:4

They do not believe, because their minds have been kept in the dark by the evil god of this world. He keeps them from seeing the light shining on them, the light that comes from the Good News about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

2 Peter 1:9

But if you do not have them, you are so shortsighted that you cannot see and have forgotten that you have been purified from your past sins.

1 John 1:6

If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.

1 John 2:10

If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin.

1 John 2:9

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

1 John 3:15

Those who hate others are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life in them.

1 John 4:20

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I am rich and well off; I have all I need.’ But you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! You are poor, naked, and blind.