1 John 4:20

Good News Translation

If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen.

Cross References

John 13:35

If you have love for one another, then everyone will know that you are my disciples.”

1 Peter 1:8

You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,

1 John 1:6

If, then, we say that we have fellowship with him, yet at the same time live in the darkness, we are lying both in our words and in our actions.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

1 John 2:11

But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind.

1 John 2:4

If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.

1 John 2:9

If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour.

1 John 3:17

If we are rich and see others in need, yet close our hearts against them, how can we claim that we love God?

1 John 4:12

No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in union with us, and his love is made perfect in us.