1 John 4:20-5:1
1599 Geneva Bible
20 [a]If any man say, I love God, and hate his brother, he is a liar: [b]for how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen?
21 (A)[c]And this commandment have we of him, that he that loveth God, should love his brother also.
5 1 He showeth that brotherly love and faith are things inseparable: 10 And that there is no faith towards God, but by believing in Christ: 14 Hence proceedeth calling upon God with assurance: 16 and also that our prayers be available for our brethren.
1 Whosoever [d]believeth that Jesus is that [e]Christ, is born of God: and everyone that loveth him, which begat, loveth [f]him also which is begotten of him.
Footnotes
- 1 John 4:20 As he showed that the love of our neighbor cannot be separate from the love wherewith God loveth us, because this last engendereth the other: so he denieth that the other kind of love wherewith we love God, can be separate from the love of our neighbor: whereof it followeth, that they lie impudently which say they worship God, and yet regard not their neighbor.
- 1 John 4:20 The first reason taken of comparison, why we cannot hate our neighbor and love God, to wit, because that he that cannot love his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?
- 1 John 4:21 A second reason, why God cannot be hated and our neighbor loved, because the selfsame Lawmaker commanded both to love him and our neighbor.
- 1 John 5:1 He goeth on forward in the same argument, showing how both those loves come into us from the love wherewith God loveth us, to wit, by Jesus our Mediator laid hold on by faith, in whom we are made the children of God, and do love the Father of whom we are so begotten and also our brethren which are begotten with us.
- 1 John 5:1 Is the true Messiah.
- 1 John 5:1 By one he meaneth all the faithful.
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