By this everyone will know that you are my talmidim, if you have love for one another.*
1 John 4:20 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) If a man says, *I love God,* and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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? |
By this everyone will know that you are my talmidim, if you have love for one another.*
whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don't see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory--
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
One who says, *I know him,* and doesn't keep his mitzvot, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.