1 John 3:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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?

Cross References

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 19:17

Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord and will be repaid in full.

Proverbs 21:13

If you close your ear to the cry of the poor, you will cry out and not be heard.

Proverbs 28:9

When one will not listen to the law, even one’s prayers are an abomination.

Luke 3:11

In reply he said to them, “Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none, and whoever has food must do likewise.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Hebrews 13:16

Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

James 2:15

If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food

James 2:16

and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?

1 John 4:20

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.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.