⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

⁶ if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth;

⁸ if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

¹⁴ What `is' the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

¹⁵ and if a brother or sister may be naked, and may be destitute of the daily food,

¹⁶ and any one of you may say to them, `Depart ye in peace, be warmed, and be filled,' and may not give to them the things needful for the body, what `is' the profit?

¹⁶ God they profess to know, and in the works they deny `Him', being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

⁹ he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;

²⁰ if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

² To Me they cry, `My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

³ Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

¹⁰ if we may say -- `we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.