1 John 3:17 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁷ If anyone has this world’s goods  and sees a fellow believer  in need  but withholds compassion  from him #– #how does God’s love reside in him?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ But if anyone has this world's goods (resources for sustaining life) and sees his brother and fellow believer in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But if someone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but refuses to help—how can the love of God dwell in a person like that?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Whoever possesses the goods of this world, and sees his brother to be in need, and yet closes his heart to him: in what way does the love of God abide in him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?

1 John 3:17 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 12:10

The righteous cares about his animal’s health, but even the merciful acts of the wicked are cruel.

Proverbs 14:31

The one who oppresses the poor person insults his Maker, but one who is kind to the needy honours him.

Proverbs 19:17

Kindness to the poor is a loan to the  Lord, and he will give a reward to the lender.  ,

Proverbs 21:13

The one who shuts his ears to the cry of the poor will himself also call out and not be answered.

Proverbs 28:9

Anyone who turns his ear away from hearing the law – even his prayer is detestable.

Luke 3:11

He replied to them, ‘The one who has two shirts must share with someone who has none, and the one who has food must do the same.’

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ: Though he was rich,  for your sake he became poor,  so that by his poverty you might become rich.

Hebrews 13:16

Don’t neglect to do what is good and to share, for God is pleased with such sacrifices.

James 2:15

If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food

James 2:16

and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, stay warm, and be well fed,’ but you don’t give them what the body needs, what good is it?

1 John 4:20

If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and yet hates his brother or sister,  he is a liar.  For the person who does not love his brother or sister  whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God,  and everyone who loves the Father  also loves the one born of him.