1 John 4:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have 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 everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Peter 1:8

Although you have not seen him, you love him, and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy,

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him while we are walking in darkness, we lie and do not do what is true;

1 John 1:8

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

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates a brother or sister is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;

1 John 2:9

Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.

1 John 3:17

How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.