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For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_john/4-20.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_john/4-20.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_john/4-20.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/1.htm">1 John</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 20</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/4-19.htm" title="1 John 4:19">◄</a> 1 John 4:20 <a href="../1_john/4-21.htm" title="1 John 4:21">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_john/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_john/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />If we say we love God, but hate others, we are liars. For we cannot love God, whom we have not seen, if we do not love others, whom we have seen. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_john/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Those who say, “I love God,” and hate their brothers or sisters, are liars; for those who do not love a brother or sister whom they have seen, cannot love God whom they have not seen.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_john/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But if we say we love God and don't love each other, we are liars. We cannot see God. So how can we love God, if we don't love the people we can see? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_john/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?</p><p class="hdg">a man.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/2-4.htm">1 John 2:4</a> He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-17.htm">1 John 3:17</a> He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?</p><p class="hdg">not.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-12.htm">1 John 4:12</a> No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_john/4.htm">Love Comes from God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">19</span>Let us therefore love God: because God first hath loved us. <span class="reftext">20</span><span class="highl">If any man say: I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God whom he seeth not?</span> <span class="reftext">21</span>And this commandment we have from God, that he who loveth God love also his brother.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/13-35.htm">John 13:35</a></span><br />By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_peter/1-8.htm">1 Peter 1:8</a></span><br />Whom having not seen, you love: in whom also now though you see him not, you believe and, believing, shall rejoice with joy unspeakable and glorified;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/1-6.htm">1 John 1:6</a></span><br />If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/1-8.htm">1 John 1:8</a></span><br />If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/2-4.htm">1 John 2:4</a></span><br />He who saith that he knoweth him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar: and the truth is not in him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/2-9.htm">1 John 2:9</a></span><br />He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/2-11.htm">1 John 2:11</a></span><br />But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth: because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/3-17.htm">1 John 3:17</a></span><br />He that hath the substance of this world and shall see his brother in need and shall shut up his bowels from him: how doth the charity of God abide in him?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-12.htm">1 John 4:12</a></span><br />No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_john/3-15.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/1_john/3-15.htm">Hates</a> <a href="/1_john/3-15.htm">Hateth</a> <a href="/1_john/4-19.htm">Love</a> <a href="/1_john/2-10.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-19.htm">Someone</a> <a href="/1_john/3-18.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/jude/1-23.htm">Hate</a> <a href="/exodus/23-5.htm">Hates</a> <a href="/genesis/27-41.htm">Hateth</a> <a href="/1_john/5-2.htm">Love</a> <a href="/1_john/4-21.htm">Loves</a> <a href="/revelation/1-13.htm">Someone</a> <a href="/2_john/1-10.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/1_john/4-20.htm">1 John 4:20 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a and anyone brother cannot does For God has hates he his I If is liar love not one says seen someone the who whom yet<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/1_john/4-20.htm">NT Letters: 1 John 4:20 If a man says I love God (1J iJ 1Jn i jn 1 jo) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_john/4-19.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 John 4:19"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 John 4:19" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_john/4-21.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 John 4:21"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 John 4:21" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>