1 John 4:13

How can we know that we live in him, and that he lives in us? He's given us the ability to love by his Spirit.

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In The King James Version

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

In Context

12No one has ever seen God. However, if we love one another then God lives in us, and his love is fulfilled in us.

14For we are witnesses to what we have seen and testify that the Father sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

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Cross References

John 14:20On that day you will know that I live in the Father, you live in me, and I live in you.

1 Corinthians 2:12For we have received the Spirit from God, not the spirit of this world, so that we could understand what God so generously gave us.

1 Corinthians 6:19Don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you, that you received from God?

Ephesians 2:20that's being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus as the cornerstone.

1 John 4:15God lives in everyone who declares that Jesus is the Son of God, and they live in God.

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 →

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