17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

English Standard Version. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

1 John 3:17-18 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?

Evil has a jealous hatred for good. This is why Cain killed Abel, and why hatred is considered the spiritual equivalent to murder.

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

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?

1 John 3:17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person?