1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
13By this we know that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Cross References
John 1:18No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him.
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, be honor and glory from age to age. Amen.)
Hebrews 11:27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he patiently endured, as seeing him that is invisible.
1 John 3:24And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.
1 John 4:17By this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because, as he is, so are we 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 →