The Love of God

10* In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
11* ¶ For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
12* Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
13* Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
14* ¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
15* Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
16* Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17* But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18* My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.