¹⁷ But whosoever has this world’s goods and sees his brother have need and shuts up his bowels of compassion from him, how does the charity of God abide in him?

¹⁸ My little children, let us not love in word neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

¹⁹ And in this we know that we are of the truth and have our hearts certified before him.