1 John 2:9

New American Standard Bible 2020

The one who says that he is in the Light and yet hates his brother or sister is in the darkness until now.

Cross References

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom did not speak with Amnon either good or bad; for Absalom hated Amnon because he had violated his sister Tamar.

Psalm 82:5

¶They do not know nor do they understand; They walk around in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Leviticus 19:17

‘You shall not hate your fellow countryman in your heart; you may certainly rebuke your neighbor, but you are not to incur sin because of him.

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now that you maintain, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Acts 1:15

At this time Peter stood up among the brothers and sisters (a group of about 120 people was there together), and said,

2 Peter 1:9

For the one who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins.

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

1 John 2:11

But the one who hates his brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:4

The one 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 obvious: anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother and sister.

1 John 4:20

If someone says, “I love God,” and yet he hates his brother or sister, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother and sister whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.