9Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.


In Context

6 Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.

7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.

8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.

9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

10 Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble.

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

1st John 2:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:9He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:9he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:9He that said he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.