15 Yet don’t consider him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

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15 Yet do not regard them as an enemy, but warn them as you would a fellow believer.(A)

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The one who says he is in the light but hates his brother or sister(A) is in the darkness until now.

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Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[a](A) is still in the darkness.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 2:9 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family; also in verse 11; and in 3:15, 17; 4:20; 5:16.

11 But the one who hates his brother or sister(A) is in the darkness, walks in the darkness,(B) and doesn’t know where he’s going,(C) because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

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11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister(A) is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.(B) They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.(C)

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15 Everyone who hates his brother or sister(A) is a murderer,(B) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister(A) is a murderer,(B) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.(C)

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20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother or sister,(A) he is a liar.(B) For the person who does not love his brother or sister(C) whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:20 Other mss read has seen, how is he able to love ... seen? (as a question)

20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(A) is a liar.(B) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(C) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(D)

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