1 John 2:9

Good News Translation

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

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.

Psalm 82:5

“How ignorant you are! How stupid! You are completely corrupt, and justice has disappeared from the world.

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 9:41

Jesus answered, “If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty.”

Acts 1:15

A few days later there was a meeting of the believers, about a hundred and twenty in all, and Peter stood up to speak.

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 2:11

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.

1 John 2:4

If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.

1 John 3:10

Here is the clear difference between God's children and the Devil's children: those who do not do what is right or do not love others are not God's children.

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.