1 John 2:9

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1 John 2:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

9 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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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

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.

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.

John 9:41

“If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”

Romans 2:18

if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law;

Romans 2:19

if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness,

Romans 2:20

an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—

Romans 2:21

you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?

1 John 3:13

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

1 John 3:14

We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

1 John 3:15

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer.

1 John 3:16

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:17

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

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.

Psalms 82:5

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

1 Corinthians 13:1

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.

1 Corinthians 13:2

If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:3

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing.

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.