1 John 4:20
If someone says ‘I love God,’ and yet hates others, they are a liar. For the person who does not love their brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
19We love, because God first loved us.
21Indeed, we have this command from Christ: Those who love God must also love each other.
Cross References
1 Peter 1:8Though you have never seen him, yet you love him; though you do not even now see him, yet you believe in him, and exalt with a triumphant happiness too great for words,
1 John 2:4Whoever says “I know him,” but does not keep his commands, is a liar. The truth has no place in them.
1 John 2:11The person who hates is in the dark. They stumble along in the darkness; they do not know where they are going because the darkness blinds them.
1 John 4:12No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love reaches perfection within us.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:18-21
The Divine Love. ( a. d. 80.) 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 19 We love him, because he first loved us. 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? 21 And this… Read the whole commentary →