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?

¹⁷ But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

¹² No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth 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 darkness even until now.

¹¹ But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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

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