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).
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.
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.