1 John 4:16

And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

In Context

15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.

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.

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Cross References

John 6:69and we believe, and know that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.

1 John 3:1Behold, how great love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the children of God! For this reason, the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

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 4:12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:15-17

The Divine Love. ( a. d. 80.) 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Since faith in Christ works love to God, and love to God must kindle love to the brethren, the apostle here confirms the prime article of the Christian faith as… Read the whole commentary →

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