1 John 2:9

The Passion Translation

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

Cross References

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?

1 John 2:11

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.

Psalm 82:5

But you continue in your darkness and ignorance while the foundations of society are shaken to the core!

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 2:4

If someone claims, “I have come to know God by experience,” yet doesn’t keep God’s commands, he is a phony and the truth finds no place in him.

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.

John 9:41

Jesus told them, “If you would acknowledge your blindness, then your sin would be removed. But now that you claim to see, your sin remains with you!”

Acts 1:15

During this time Peter stood up among the 120 believers who were gathered and said,

1 John 3:10

Here is how God’s children can be clearly distinguished from the children of the Evil One. Anyone who does not demonstrate righteousness and show love to fellow believers is not living with God as his source.