1 John 2:11
But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10He that loves his brother abides in light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
12I write to you, children, because [your] sins are forgiven you for his name's sake.
Cross References
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
John 12:40He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, that they may not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart and be converted, and I should heal them.
2 Corinthians 4:4in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is [the] image of God, should not shine forth [for them].
1 John 1:6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
Revelation 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that *thou* art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;
Matthew Henry on 1 John 2:8-12
The Law of Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning. 8 Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. 9 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none… Read the whole commentary →