MLV(i)
16 We have known love in this, because that man laid down his life on our behalf and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brethren.
17 But whoever has the world’s good life and should view his brother having need and then should lock his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My little-children, do not love in word, nor with the tongue, but in work and in truth.
19 And we know in this that we are from the truth and will persuade our hearts before him;