1 John 4:12

Legacy Standard Bible

No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob named the place Peniel, for he said, “I have seen God face to face, yet my life has been delivered.”

Exodus 33:20

But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, Indeed clearly, and not in riddles, And he beholds the form of Yahweh. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant, against Moses?”

John 1:18

No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But now abide faith, hope, love—these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Timothy 1:17

Now to the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal might! Amen.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the rage of the king; for he endured, as seeing Him who is unseen.

1 John 2:5

but whoever keeps His word, truly in him the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

1 John 3:24

And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He gave us.

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has in us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:20

If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 4:6

We are from God. The one who knows God hears us; the one who is not from God does not hear us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.