1 John 2:9 Cross References - WPNT

⁹ He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now.

⁴¹ Jesus said to them, “If you were ‘blind’ you would not have sin. But now you say, ‘We see’, so your sin remains.”

¹⁸ and know the Will, and approve the superior things, being instructed out of the Law. ¹⁹ Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth. ²¹ You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?

¹ If I speak the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

⁹ For he who lacks these things is blind, being so myopic, having forgotten the cleansing from his past sins.

⁶ If we claim that we have fellowship with Him while walking in the darkness, we are lying and not living the truth.

⁴ He who says, “I have come to know Him”, yet doesn’t keep His commandments, is a liar and the Truth is not in him.

¹¹ But he who keeps hating his brother is in the darkness and keeps walking in the darkness; he doesn’t know where he’s going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹³ My brothers, don’t be surprised if the world hates you. ¹⁴ We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who doesn’t love his brother remains in the death. ¹⁵ Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself. ¹⁶ We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers. ¹⁷ Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him?

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God”, while hating his brother, he is a liar. Well, how can he love God whom he hasn’t seen, while not loving his brother whom he has seen?