Devine Scripture

1 John 4:20

1 John chapter 4 · verse 20 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

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.

Context

v.19We love, because he first loved us.

v.20This passage

v.21And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 John 2:4

    He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

  • 1 John 3:17

    But whoso hath the world’s goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

  • 1 John 4:12

    No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

  • 1 John 2:11

    But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 1:6

    If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

  • 1 John 2:9

    He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.