1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love reaches perfection within us.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
11Dear friends, since God loved us in this way, we should love one another.
13We know that we live in him, and he lives in us, because he has given us a measure of his Spirit.
Cross References
John 1:18No one has ever yet seen God; God the only Son, who is ever with the Father – he has revealed him.
1 Timothy 1:17To the eternal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 11:27Faith caused him to leave Egypt, though undaunted by the king’s anger, for he was strengthened in his endurance by the vision of the invisible God.
1 John 3:24The person who keeps his commands dwells in God and God dwells in them. And we are sure he lives in us because of the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:17This is the way love has reached its perfection among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like Christ.
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 →