1 John 2:9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.

Cross References

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

2 Peter 1:9

For anyone who lacks these things is nearsighted and blind, and is forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments, is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

John 9:41

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself.

2 Samuel 13:22

But Absalom spoke to Amnon neither good nor bad; for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had raped his sister Tamar.

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the believers (together the crowd numbered about one hundred twenty persons) and said,

1 John 3:10

The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love their brothers and sisters.