1 John 4:12
No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.
13In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his spirit.
Cross References
John 1:18No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, the one being in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared him.
1 Timothy 1:17But to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, be honor and glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen.
Hebrews 11:27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he went out, as seeing the invisible one.
1 John 3:24And the one keeping his commandments abides in him, and he in him; and in this we know that he abides in us, he has given us of his Spirit.
1 John 4:17In this the divine love has been made perfect in us, that we may have boldness in the day of the judgment: because as he is, so 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 →