1 John 4:12
No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.
13In this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us from his Spirit.
Cross References
Exodus 33:20And he said, Thou cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
John 1:18No man has ever seen God. The only begotten Son, being in the bosom of the Father, that man reported him.
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, alone wise, to God is honor and glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.
Hebrews 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not having feared the wrath of the king, for he persevered as seeing the invisible.
1 John 3:24And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.
1 John 4:17By this love has been fully perfected with us, so that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because just as that man is, we also are in this world.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:8-14
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one… Read the whole commentary →