1 John 4:12

No one has ever beheld Hashem. If we have ahavah one for another, G-d makes His ma'on in us and the Ahavas Hashem in us has been made shleimah.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

In Context

11Chaverim, if Hashem so had ahavah for us, also we ought to have ahavah one for another.

13By this we have da'as that we have our ma'on in Him and He in us, because of the Ruach Hakodesh of Him He has given us.

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Cross References

Exodus 33:20And He said, Thou canst not see My face; for there shall no adam see Me, and live.

John 1:18No one has ever seen Hashem. + 1:18 Ex 33:20 It is Elohim the Ben Yachid, + 1:18 who shares the nature of Hashem, the Chochmah Ben Elohim at his side, see very importantly Prov 8:30; 30:4 it is he, the one being in the kheyk (bosom) of HaAv, this one is Hashemʼs definitive midrash (exegesis).

1 Timothy 1:17Now to HaMelech HaOlamim, the One who is Ein Sof (without end), Whom no eye has seen, Adonoi echad, lo hakavod v'hatiferet mayhaolam v'ad haolam (to him be honor and glory from forever to forever). Omein.

Hebrews 11:27By Emunah, Moshe Rabbeinu departed from Mitzrayim (Egypt), not having pachad (fear) of the ka'as (anger) of the king, for he persevered as seeing the One who is unseen.

1 John 3:24And the one being shomer of His mitzvot makes his ma'on in Him and He makes His ma'on in him; and by this we have da'as that He abides in us, by the Ruach Hakodesh whom He gave to us. + 3:24 Yn 14:21,23; Ro 8:9,14,16

1 John 4:17By this has the ahavah become shleimah with us, that we may have bitachon in the Yom HaDin, because as that One is, so we are also in the Olam Hazeh.

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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