No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 John 4:12 in context
1 John 4:9–15
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By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.
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In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
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By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
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Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him, and he in God.
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