1 John 4:12
No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.
Cross References
John 1:18No man has ever yet seen God; God the Only Son, who is ever with the Father — He has revealed him.
1 Timothy 1:17To the Immortal King, ever-living, invisible, the one God, be ascribed honour 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 3:24And he who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with him. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us — by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.
1 John 4:17It is through this that love has attained its perfection in us, so that we may have confidence on the Day of Judgment, because what Christ is that we also are 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 →