1 John 3:17-19 But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him?

Williams⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁷ But if anyone has the world's means of supporting life and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how can love to God remain in him? ¹⁸ Dear children, let us stop loving with words or lips alone, but let us love with actions and in truth. ¹⁹ In this way we shall know by experience that we are on the side of the truth, and satisfy our consciences in God's sight,