1 John 4:13
I will tell you how we can be sure that we have a close relationship with God and that God is within us: He has put his Spirit within us.
Translation for Translators
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
Cross References
John 14:20At that time you will know that I have a close relationship with my Father, and you will have a close relationship with me, and I will have a close relationship with you.
1 Corinthians 2:12It was not the ideas that unbelievers teach that we accepted. Instead, it was the Spirit who came from God that we received, in order that we might know the things that God has freely done for us.
1 Corinthians 6:19◄Keep in mind that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit./Do you not know that your bodies are like [MET] temples of the Holy Spirit?► [RHQ] The Spirit, whom God gave you, lives within you. You do not belong to yourselves. You belong to God,
Ephesians 2:20Just like a building is built { as someone builds a building} on a foundation, God has joined you into one group that originated/began from what the apostles and prophets taught. Christ Jesus is the most important one in that group, just like a cornerstone is the most important part of a building. And
1 John 4:15So those who affirm/say that Jesus is the ◄Son of/one who is also► God, God is within them, and they have a close relationship with 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 →