1 John 4:12
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
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In Context
11Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
13We know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us his Spirit.
Cross References
John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 11:27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as though he could see him who is invisible.
1 John 3:24Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God abides in him. And we know that he abides in us because of the Spirit he has given us.
1 John 4:17In this way, love is perfected among us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as he is, so also are we 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 →