1 JOHN 4:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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?”
If anyone says, 'I love God' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen — the liars (pseudesthēs) claim vertical love while denying horizontal love. The logical argument: if one cannot love the visible brother, the invisible God's love is impossible. Hatred of the brother is ipso facto God-hatred.
Church Fathers on 1 John 4:20
“If any man say, I love God.” 1 John 4:20 What God? wherefore love we? “Because He first loved us,” and gave us to love. He loved us ungodly, to make us godly; loved us unrighteous, to make us righteous; loved us sick, to make us whole. Ask each several man; let him tell you if he love God. He cries out, he confesses: I love, God knows. There is another question to be asked. “If any man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar.” By what do you prove that he is a…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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