1 John 4:16
and we — we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
15whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;
Cross References
Psalms 18:1To the Overseer. — By a servant of Jehovah, by David, who hath spoken to Jehovah the words of this song in the day Jehovah delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul, and he saith: — I love Thee, O Jehovah, my strength.
Psalms 36:7How precious [is] Thy kindness, O God, And the sons of men In the shadow of Thy wings do trust.
John 6:69and we have believed, and we have known, that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.'
1 John 3:1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;
1 John 3:24and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
1 John 4:12God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:15-17
The Divine Love. ( a. d. 80.) 14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. Since faith in Christ works love to God, and love to God must kindle love to the brethren, the apostle here confirms the prime article of the Christian faith as… Read the whole commentary →