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The if is warning us not to pretend but to be real. He says, if you're this, if you're this. In other words, are you really this? The idea of saying I love God means to keep on loving him. And as a result, to keep on loving man as well. You cannot have one without the other. Hate can mean to feel intense or passionate dislike for someone. It's in the the hatred here is an intense ongoing kind of hate.