By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another."
1 John 4:20 - 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? 更多版本King 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! 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? English Standard Version 2016 If anyone 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. |
By this, all shall recognize that you are my disciples: if you will have love for one another."
For though you have not seen him, you love him. In him also, though you do not see him, you now believe. And in believing, you shall exult with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
If we claim that we have fellowship with him, and yet we walk in darkness, then we are lying and not telling the truth.
If we claim that we have no sin, then we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness, and in darkness he walks, and he does not know where he is going. For the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Whoever claims that he knows him, and yet does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Whoever declares himself to be in the light, and yet hates his brother, is in the darkness even now.
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?
No one has ever seen God. But if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.