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1 John 2:9

Love for othersAngerConflict and reconciliation

7 Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.

8 Then again, I am also writing to you a new commandment, which is true in Him and also in you. For the darkness is fading and the true light is already shining.

If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.

10 Whoever loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no cause of stumbling in him.

11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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BSB
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
KJV
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
WEB
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.
ASV
He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
DARBY
He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.
BLB
The one claiming to be in the light and hating his brother is in the darkness until now.
ÅB
Den som sier at han er i lyset, og som hater sin bror, han er enda i mørket.
OTB
Den som sier at han er i Lyset og likevel hater sin bror eller søster, er i mørket inntil nå.
B1930
Den som sier at han er i lyset, og som hater sin bror, han er ennu i mørket.

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Cross references

  • 1 John 4:20

    If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

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  • 1 John 2:11

    But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. He does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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  • 1 John 3:13–17

    So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

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  • Psalms 82:5

    They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:1–3

    If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

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  • 2 Peter 1:9

    But whoever lacks these traits is nearsighted to the point of blindness, having forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

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  • 1 John 2:4

    If anyone says, “I know Him,” but does not keep His commandments, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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  • 1 John 1:6

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

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