Bible verse
If anyone claims to be in the light but hates his brother, he is still in the darkness.
1 John 2:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 John 2.
5 But if anyone keeps His word, the love of God has been truly perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him:
6 Whoever claims to abide in Him must walk as Jesus walked.
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.
12 I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven through His name.
13 I am writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who is from the beginning. I am writing to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children, because you know the Father.
KJV
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
ASV
He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
ERV
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
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