1 John 2:9
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9 Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.(A)
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1 John 4:20
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20 Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(A)
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1 John 2:11
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11 But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.(A)
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1 John 3:13-17
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13 Do not be astonished, brothers and sisters, that the world hates you.(A) 14 We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers and sisters. Whoever does not love abides in death.(B) 15 All who hate a brother or sister are murderers, and you know that murderers do not have eternal life abiding in them.(C) 16 We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.(D) 17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?(E)
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2 Peter 1:9
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9 For anyone who lacks these things is blind, suffering from eye disease, forgetful of the cleansing of past sins.(A)
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1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.(A) 3 If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.(B)
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Psalm 82:5
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5 They have neither knowledge nor understanding;
they walk around in darkness;
all the foundations of the earth are shaken.(A)
1 John 2:4
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4 Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
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1 John 1:6
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6 If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;
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Romans 2:18-21
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18 and know his will and determine what really matters because you are instructed in the law, 19 and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth,(A) 21 you, then, who teach others, will you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?(B)
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John 9:41
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41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.(A)
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