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1 John 4:16

and we have known and believed the love that God has in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in love, remains in God, and God in him.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

15whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God;

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.

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Cross References

Psalms 18:1TO THE OVERSEER. BY A SERVANT OF YHWH, BY DAVID, WHO HAS SPOKEN TO YHWH THE WORDS OF THIS SONG IN THE DAY YHWH DELIVERED HIM FROM THE HAND OF ALL HIS ENEMIES, AND FROM THE HAND OF SAUL, AND HE SAYS: I love You, O YHWH, my strength.

Psalms 36:7How precious [is] Your kindness, O God, || And the sons of men trust || In the shadow of Your wings.

John 6:69and we have believed, and we have known, that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

1 John 3:1See what love the Father has given to us, that we may be called children of God; because of this the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

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 4:12no one has ever seen God; if we may love one another, God remains in us, and His love is having been 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 →

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