Living_Oracles(i)
11 For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12 Not being of the wicked one, as Cain was, who slew his brother. And on account of what, did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and his brother's righteous.
13 Do not wonder, my brethren, that the world hates you.
14 We know that we have passed away from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who loves not his brother, abides in death.
15 Every one who hates his brother, is a manslayer; and you know that no manslayer has eternal life abiding in him.
16 By this we have known the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us; therefore we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 Whoever, therefore, has the goods of this world, and sees his brother in need, and yet shuts up his compassion from him, how abides the love of God in him?
18 My little children, let us not love in word, nor in tongue; but in deed, and in truth.
19 For by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.