If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen (1 John 4:20).
Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity (1 John 3:18).
And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and James, and went up into a mountain to pray.
For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.