1 John 4:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

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, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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  • 1 John 3:17 : 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
  • 1 John 4:12 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
  • 1 John 2:11 : 11 But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
  • 1 John 1:6 : 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:
  • 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 Whom having not seen you love; in whom, though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory,

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  • 1 John 4:21
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    21And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

  • 1 John 4:7-12
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    7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

    8He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

    9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

  • 1 John 3:10-18
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    10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

    11For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

    12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

    13Do not marvel, my brothers, if the world hates you.

    14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

    16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

  • 1 John 2:9-11
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    9He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.

    10He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

    11But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:16-19
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    16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

    17In this love has been perfected among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

    19We love Him because He first loved us.

  • 1 John 2:4-6
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    4He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    5But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

    6He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked.

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    22Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart,

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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments.

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    10If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

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    9But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

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    11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

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    3But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

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    10He who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself; he who does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he does not believe the testimony that God has given of His Son.

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    11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.

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    17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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    23And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

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    12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

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    6If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practice the truth:

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who does evil has not seen God.

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    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

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    7And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.

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    23He who hates me hates my Father also.

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    23Therefore if you bring your gift to the altar, and there remember that your brother has something against you,

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    8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

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    17You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him.

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    16If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin not leading to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is a sin leading to death; I do not say that he should pray about that.