1 John 4:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Cross References

Genesis 32:30

So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.”

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.”

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. “Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love.

1 Timothy 1:17

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

1 Timothy 6:16

It is he alone who has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see; to him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, unafraid of the king’s anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is invisible.

1 John 2:5

but whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has reached perfection. By this we know that we are in him:

1 John 3:24

All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

1 John 4:20

Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

1 John 4:6

We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.