1 John 4:12
no one has ever seen God; if we may love one another, God remains in us, and His love is having been perfected in us;
Literal Standard Version
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 remain in Him, and He in us, because of His Spirit He has given us.
Cross References
Exodus 33:20He also says, “You are unable to see My face, for man does not see Me and live”;
John 1:18No one has ever seen God; the only begotten God who is on the bosom of the Father—He has expounded [Him].
1 Timothy 1:17And to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God, [is] honor and glory through the ages of the ages! Amen.
Hebrews 11:27By faith he left Egypt behind, having not been afraid of the wrath of the king, for as seeing the Invisible One—he endured.
1 John 3:24and he who is keeping His commands, remains in Him, and He in him; and in this we know that He remains in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
1 John 4:17In this, love has been perfected with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because even 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 →