1 John 2:11

The Passion Translation

But whoever hates a fellow believer lives in the darkness—stumbling around in the dark with no clue where he is going, for he is blinded by the darkness.

Cross References

John 12:35

Jesus replied, “You will have the light shining with you for only a little while longer. While you still have me, walk in the light, so that the darkness doesn’t overtake you. For when you walk in the dark you have no idea where you’re going.

Titus 3:3

For it wasn’t that long ago that we behaved foolishly in our stubborn disobedience. We were easily led astray as slaves to worldly passions and pleasures. We wasted our lives in doing evil, and with hateful jealousy we hated others.

Revelation 3:17

For you claim, “I’m rich and getting richer—I don’t need a thing.” Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren, and naked!

1 John 1:6

If we claim that we share life with him, but keep walking in the realm of darkness, we’re fooling ourselves and not living the truth.

1 John 2:9

Anyone who says, “I am in the light,” while holding hatred in his heart toward a fellow believer is still in the darkness.

2 Corinthians 4:4

for their minds have been blinded by the god of this age, leaving them in unbelief. Their blindness keeps them from seeing the dayspring light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the divine image of God.

John 12:40

God has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts to the truth. So with their eyes and hearts closed they cannot understand the truth nor turn to me so that I could instantly cleanse and heal them.

2 Corinthians 3:14

Their minds were closed and hardened, for even to this day that same veil comes over their minds when they hear the words of the former covenant. The veil has not yet been lifted from them, for it is only eliminated when one is joined to the Messiah.

Proverbs 4:19

But the wicked walk in thick darkness, like those who travel in fog, and yet don’t have a clue why they keep stumbling!

2 Peter 1:9

But if anyone lacks these things, he is blind, constantly closing his eyes to the mysteries of our faith, and forgetting his innocence—for his past sins have been washed away.

1 John 2:10

But the one who truly loves a fellow believer lives in the light, and there is nothing in him that will cause someone else to stumble.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who keeps hating a fellow believer is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

1 John 4:20

Anyone can say, “I love God,” yet have hatred toward another believer. This makes him a phony, because if you don’t love a brother or sister, whom you can see, how can you truly love God, whom you can’t see?