1 John 3:10-18

Godbey(i) 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: every one not doing righteousness is not of God, and the one not loving his brother with divine love. 11 Because this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we must love one another, 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother; and on account of what did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous. 13 And be not astonished, brother, if the world hates you. 14 We know that we have passed out of the death into the life, because we love the brethren with divine love; the one loving not with divine love, abides in the death. 15 Every one hating his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in himself. 16 In this we know the divine love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 Whosoever may have the sustenance of the world, and see his brother having need, and shut up his sympathies from him, how dwells the divine love of God in him? 18 Little children, let us love with divine love not in word, nor in tongue; but in deed and in truth.