1 John 4:20
If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
19Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.
Cross References
1 Peter 1:8whom you not seeing, love with divine love; on whom, not looking, but believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
1 John 2:4The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1 John 2:11But the one hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and does not know whither he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
1 John 4:12No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in 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 →