◄ 1 John 2:9 ►
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Good News Translation
If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

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

Contemporary English Version
If we claim to be in the light and hate someone, we are still in the dark.

New American Bible
Whoever says he is in the light, yet hates his brother, is still in the darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.

that saith.

1 John 2:4 He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.

he is.

1 John 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.

John 9:41 Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

Romans 2:18-21 And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law: . . .

and hateth.

1 John 3:13-17 Wonder not, brethren, if the world hate you. . . .

is in.

1 John 2:11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Psalm 82:5 They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. . . .

2 Peter 1:9 For he that hath not these things with him is blind and groping, having forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Context
A New Commandment
…8Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth. 9He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now. 10He that loveth his brother abideth in the light: and there is no scandal in him.…
Cross References
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

2 Samuel 13:22
But Absalom spoke not to Ammon neither good nor evil: for Absalom hated Ammon because he had ravished his sister Thamar.

Acts 1:15
In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):

1 John 2:11
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

1 John 3:10
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil. Whosoever is not just is not of God, or he that loveth not his brother.

1 John 3:15
Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

1 John 3:16
In this we have known the charity of God, because he hath laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

1 John 4:20
If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?

1 John 2:8
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