1 John 4:16
And *we* have known and have believed the love which God has to us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
Cross References
Psalms 18:1{To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David, the servant of Jehovah, who spoke to Jehovah the words of this song in the day that Jehovah had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies and out of the hand of Saul. And he said,} I will love thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalms 36:7How precious is thy loving-kindness, O God! So the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.
John 6:69and we have believed and known that thou art the holy one of God.
1 John 3:1See what love the Father has given to 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 hereby we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given to us.
1 John 4:12No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides 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 →