1 John 4:16

New American Bible - revised edition

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

Cross References

1 John 3:24

Those who keep his commandments remain in him, and he in them, and the way we know that he remains in us is from the Spirit that he gave us.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has bestowed on us that we may be called the children of God. Yet so we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:16

The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But as it is written: “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him,”

Psalm 31:19

Strike dumb their lying lips, which speak arrogantly against the righteous in contempt and scorn.

John 6:69

We have come to believe and are convinced that you are the Holy One of God.”

Isaiah 64:4

Would that you might meet us doing right, that we might be mindful of you in our ways! Indeed, you are angry; we have sinned, we have acted wickedly.

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.