约翰壹书 2:9

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

凡是說自己在光明中，卻恨他的弟兄的，他到現在還在黑暗裡。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
人 若 说 自 己 在 光 明 中 ， 却 恨 他 的 弟 兄 ， 他 到 如 今 还 是 在 黑 暗 里 。

Contextual Overview

⁷ My dear friends, I am not writing a new command to you but an old command you have had from the beginning. It is the teaching you have already heard. ⁸ But also I am writing a new command to you, and you can see its truth in Jesus and in you, because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining. ⁹ Anyone who says, "I am in the light," but hates a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. ¹⁰ Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light and will not cause anyone to stumble in his faith. ¹¹ But whoever hates a brother or sister is in darkness, lives in darkness, and does not know where to go, because the darkness has made that person blind.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that saith: 1 John 2:4

he is: 1 John 1:6, John 9:41, Romans 2:18-21

and hateth: 1 John 3:13-17

is in: 1 John 2:11, Psalms 82:5, 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, 2 Peter 1:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:8 - brethren Leviticus 19:17 - hate Joshua 23:12 - go back Matthew 5:22 - his brother John 12:36 - the children John 12:46 - am Acts 26:18 - and to Romans 12:10 - kindly Romans 13:12 - works 1 Corinthians 6:6 - brother Ephesians 5:8 - but Hebrews 13:1 - General 1 John 1:7 - If we 1 John 3:10 - neither 1 John 3:14 - that loveth 1 John 4:8 - knoweth

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat the fruit from the tree which gives the knowledge of good and evil. If you ever eat fruit from that tree, you will die!"

Genesis 3:3
But God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch it, or you will die.'"

Deuteronomy 6:25
The right thing for us to do is this: Obey all these rules in the presence of the Lord our God, as he has commanded."

Proverbs 3:18
As a tree produces fruit, wisdom gives life to those who use it, and everyone who uses it will be happy.

Proverbs 11:30
A good person gives life to others; the wise person teaches others how to live.

Isaiah 44:25
I show that the signs of the lying prophets are false; I make fools of those who do magic. I confuse even the wise; they think they know much, but I make them look foolish.

Isaiah 47:10
You do evil things, but you feel safe and say, ‘No one sees what I do.' Your wisdom and knowledge have fooled you. You say to yourself, ‘I am God, and no one is equal to me.'

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of the tree falling when I brought it down to the place of the dead. It went to join those who have gone down to the grave. Then all the trees of Eden and the best trees of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the place of the dead below the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that saith he is in the light,.... Is in Christ the light, or has the true knowledge of the light of the Gospel, or is illuminated by the Spirit of God; for persons may profess to be enlightened ones, and not be so: wherefore the apostle does not say, he that is in the light, but he that says he is,

and hateth his brother; who is so either by creation, as all men are brethren, having one Father, that has made them, and brought them up; or by regeneration, being born of God the Father, and in the same family and household of faith; and so regards such who are in a spiritual relation, whom to hate internally, or not to love, is inconsistent with being in the light, or having faith, which is always naturally and necessarily accompanied with the heat of love; for as light and heat, so faith and love go together: wherefore, let a man's profession of light be what it will, if love to his brother is wanting, he

is in darkness even until now; he is in a state of nature and unregeneracy, which is a state of darkness and ignorance; he is under the power of darkness, and in the kingdom of Satan; who is the ruler of the darkness of this world; he ever was so from his birth; he never was called nor delivered out of it, but is still in it to this moment, and so remains. This seems to be very much levelled against the Jews, who make hatred of the brother in some cases lawful: for they say d,

"if one man observes sin in another, and reproves him for it, and he does not receive his reproof, מותר לשנאותו, "it is lawful to hate him";''

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d Moses Kotsensis Mitzvot Tora, pr. neg. 5.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that saith he is in the light - That he has true religion, or is a Christian. See 1 John 1:7.

And hateth his brother - The word “brother” seems here to refer to those who professed the same religion. The word is indeed sometimes used in a larger sense, but the reference here appears to be to that which is properly brotherly love among Christians. Compare Lucke, in loc.

Is in darkness even until now - That is, he cannot have true religion unless he has love to the brethren. The command to love one another was one of the most solemn and earnest which Christ ever enjoined, John 15:17; he made it the special badge of discipleship, or that by which his followers were to be everywhere known, John 13:35; and it is, therefore, impossible to have any true religion without love to those who are sincerely and truly his followers. If a man has not that, he is in deep darkness, whatever else he may have, on the whole subject of religion. Compare the notes at 1 Thessalonians 4:9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 9. He that saith he is in the light — He that professes to be a convert to Christianity, even in the lowest degree; and hateth his brother-not only does not love him, but wills and does him evil, as the Jews did the Gentiles; is in darkness-has received no saving knowledge of the truth; and, whatever he may pretend, is in heathen ignorance, or even worse than heathen ignorance, to the present time, notwithstanding the clear shining of the light of the Gospel.