1 John 2:9
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9 (A)He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness until now.
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1 John 4:20
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Obedience by Faith
20 (A)If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, [a]how can he love God (B)whom he has not seen?
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- 1 John 4:20 NU he cannot
1 John 2:11
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11 But he who (A)hates his brother is in darkness and (B)walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
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1 John 3:13-17
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13 Do not marvel, my brethren, if (A)the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love [a]his brother abides in death. 15 (B)Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that (C)no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
The Outworking of Love
16 (D)By this we know love, (E)because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But (F)whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
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- 1 John 3:14 NU omits his brother
2 Peter 1:9
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9 For he who lacks these things is (A)shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
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1 John 1:6
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6 (A)If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of (A)prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, (B)so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And (C)though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body [a]to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
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- 1 Corinthians 13:3 NU so I may boast
1 John 2:4
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4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a (A)liar, and the truth is not in him.
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Romans 2:18-21
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18 and (A)know His will, and (B)approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, 19 and (C)are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness, 20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, (D)having the form of knowledge and truth in the law. 21 (E)You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?
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Psalm 82:5
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5 They do not know, nor do they understand;
They walk about in darkness;
All the (A)foundations of the earth are [a]unstable.
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John 9:41
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41 Jesus said to them, (A)“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
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