1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God. However, if we love one another then God lives in us, and his love is fulfilled in us.
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In Context
11Friends, if this is the way God loves us, we ought to love one another like this too.
Cross References
Exodus 33:20But you won't be able to see my face, because no one can see my face and live.”
John 1:18While no one has ever seen God, God the one and only, who is close beside the Father, has shown us what God is like.
1 Timothy 1:17Honor and glory forever and ever to the eternal King, the immortal, invisible, and only God! Amen.
Hebrews 11:27Trusting in God, he left Egypt and wasn't scared of Pharaoh's anger—he kept going with his eyes fixed on the invisible God.
1 John 3:24Those who keep his commands continue to live in him, and he lives in them. We know that he lives in us by the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:17This is how love is made complete in us so that we can be confident on judgment day: by the fact that we live just like him 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 →