WPNT(i)
11 Because this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another
12 —not like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own works were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
13 My brothers, don’t be surprised if the world hates you.
14 We know that we have transferred out of the death into the life because we love our brothers; he who doesn’t love his brother remains in the death.
15 Whoever is hating his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding within himself.
16 We know the Love by this: He laid down His life in our behalf; we also are obligated to lay down our lives in behalf of our brothers.
17 Now whoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart toward him—how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My dear children, let us not love in word or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth