1 John 3:17
Whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother have need, and shuts his heart against him, how dwells the love of God in him?
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.
Cross References
2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet, for your sakes, he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might become rich.
2 Corinthians 9:5Therefore, I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go before to you, and make ready beforehand your bounty, which has been so much talked of before, that this might be ready as a bounty, and not as a gift extorted from you.
Hebrews 13:16But forget not to do good, and to be liberal: for with such, sacrifices God is well pleased.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 3:15-20
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. 15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from… Read the whole commentary →