...pretences to piety and zeal for the service of God are declared to be vain. If a man say he loves God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him. And Paul also, in like manner, — " Tho' I speak with the tongues of men, and angels, and have not charity,...

...confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins"; but if any man say that he has no sin he is a liar, and the truth is not in him, and there cannot be peace between him and God while he is in that humour. It seems a stern demand, and...

...in us, until we are at peace in relation to human enmities. " If any man say that he loves God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him ; " and the very language in which we are to ask Divine forgiveness, implies that we understand this — "...

...brethren, and knowing that an apostle has said, " If a man say he loves God, and loves not his brethren, he is a liar, and the truth is not in him ;" and as Christ has no concord with Belial, nor righteousness with unrighteousness; and as I have no right...