1 John 2:9 Cross References - BBE

⁹ He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

⁵ They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

¹⁸ And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law, ¹⁹ In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark, ²⁰ A teacher of the foolish, having in the law the form of knowledge and of what is true; ²¹ You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

¹ If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell. ² And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.

⁶ If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

⁴ The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

¹¹ But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

¹³ Do not be surprised, my brothers, if the world has no love for you. ¹⁴ We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death. ¹⁵ Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him. ¹⁶ In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers. ¹⁷ But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

²⁰ If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?