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1 John 4:20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
1 John 4:20
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Keeping God’s Commands
20 If anyone says, “I love God,” yet hates his brother,(A) he is a liar.(B) For the person who does not love his brother(C) he has seen cannot love the God he has not seen.[a]
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- 1 John 4:20 Other mss read has seen, how is he able to love . . . seen? (as a question)
1 John 4:20
New International Version
1 John 4:20
New International Version
20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister(A) is a liar.(B) For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen,(C) cannot love God, whom they have not seen.(D)
1 John 4:20
King James Version
1 John 4:20
King James Version
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?
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