1 John 4:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Psalm 31:19

O how abundant is your goodness that you have laid up for those who fear you and accomplished for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of everyone!

Isaiah 64:4

From ages past no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who works for those who wait for him.

John 6:69

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

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.

1 Corinthians 2:9

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God, and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.

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 4:7

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