14 We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.
15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that every murderer does not have eternal life residing in him.
16 We have come to know love by this: that he laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.
17 But whoever has the world’s material possessions and observes his brother in need and shuts his heart against him, how does the love of God reside in him?
18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
19 By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,
20 that if our heart condemns us, that God is greater than our heart and knows all things.