1 John 4:20 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁰ If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot 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 Križne Reference

John 13:35

By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

1 Peter 1:8

Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy.

1 John 1:6

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not live according to the truth;

1 John 1:8

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:11

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

1 John 2:4

He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

1 John 2:9

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

1 John 3:17

But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 John 4:12

No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.