1 John 4:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ If someone says, “I love Elohim,” and hates his brother, he is a liar. For the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, how is he able to love Elohim whom he has not seen?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother [in Christ], he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Those who say, “I love God” and hate their brothers or sisters are liars. After all, those who don’t love their brothers or sisters whom they have seen can hardly love God whom they have not seen!

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If anyone says that he loves God, but hates his brother, then he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother, whom he does see, in what way can he love God, whom he does not see?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?

1 John 4:20 Cross References

John 13:35

“By this shall all know that you are My taught ones, if you have love for one another.”

1 Peter 1:8

whom having not seen, you love; in whom you exult with unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet not seeing, but believing,

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and are not doing the truth.

1 John 1:8

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

1 John 2:11

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

1 John 2:4

The one who says, “I know Him,” and does not guard His commands, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.

1 John 3:17

But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?

1 John 4:12

No one has seen Elohim at any time. If we love one another, Elohim does stay in us, and His love has been perfected in us.