1 John 4:20 - The Text-Critical English New Testament

²⁰ If anyone says, “I love God,” and yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has 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?

1 John 4:20 Tagairtí Cros

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 once did not know him, you love him; although you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with an unspeakable and glorious joy,

1 John 1:6

If we say that we have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.

1 John 1:8

If we say that we do not have sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:11

But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:4

Whoever says, “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:9

Whoever says he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.

1 John 3:17

If anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need but closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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.