17 “You must not harbor hatred against your brother.[a](A) Rebuke your neighbor directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.(B)

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  1. Leviticus 19:17 Or your fellow Israelite

17 “‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart.(A) Rebuke your neighbor frankly(B) so you will not share in their guilt.

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15 Everyone who hates his brother(A) is a murderer,(B) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.

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15 Anyone who hates a brother or sister(A) is a murderer,(B) and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.(C)

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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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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:20 Other mss read has seen, how is he able to love . . . seen? (as a question)

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)

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