1 John 4:19-21 Part 1 of 2

We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

 

We love because he first loved us.

1 John 4:10  This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. (see verses 7-12)

 

Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister 

1 John 2:9  Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness.

1 John 2:11  But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them. (see verses 9-11)

Leviticus 19:17  " 'Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.' "

1 John 3:10  This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God's child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother or sister. (see verses 1-10)

1 John 3:15   Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

1 John 3:16  This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

 

is a liar. 

1 John 1:6  If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. (see verses 5-10)

John 3:19-21  This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of the light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

1 John 2:4  Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. (see verses 3-6)

 

(parentheses are mine)

 

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