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, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

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?

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:

⁴ He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

⁹ He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

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.

⁶ If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:

⁸ whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory: