20If 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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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-21)The apostle, having thus excited and enforced sacred love from the great pattern and motive of it, the love that is and dwells in God himself, proceeds to recommend it further by other considerations; and he recommends it in both the branches of it, both as love to God, and love to our brother or Christian neighbour. I. As love to God, to the primum amabile—the first and chief of all amiable being…
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