1 John 4:12
No man has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and the love of him is perfected in us.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
13In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
Cross References
John 1:18No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he declared him.
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King eternal, the imperishable, invisible, only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 11:27By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
1 John 3:24And he that keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 4:17In this has love been perfected with us[4:17], that we have confidence in the day of judgment; because as he 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 →