1 John 2:9

God's Commands

⁸ Yet, again, it is a new Command that I am writing to you-- manifest in Christ's life and in your own--for the Darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. ⁹ He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now. ¹⁰ He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble;

In the Darkness

In the Light

Living In Darkness

Christ

Sin

1 John 2:11

while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

1 John 4:20

If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.

John 9:41

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

Romans 2:18-21

And, having been carefully instructed from the Law, have learned to appreciate the finer moral distinctions.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Though I speak in the 'tongues' of men, or even of angels, yet have not Love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!

2 Peter 1:9

Surely the man who has not these virtues is shortsighted even to blindness, and has chosen to forget that he has been purified from his sins of the past!

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have communion with him, and yet continue to live in the Darkness, we lie, and are not living the Truth.

1 John 2:4

The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

1 John 3:13-17

Do not wonder, Brothers, if the world hates you.