1 John 4:12
No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
11Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Cross References
John 1:18No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.
1 Timothy 1:17Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.
Hebrews 11:27Through faith he left Egypt, not being frightened by the king's anger; for he held on his course as seeing the unseen One.
1 John 3:24The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.
1 John 4:17Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the 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 →