1 John 4:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

No man 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 name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved.”

Exodus 33:20

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live.”

Numbers 12:8

With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; 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; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known.

1 Corinthians 13:13

So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Timothy 1:17

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

1 Timothy 6:16

who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

Hebrews 11:27

By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king; for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

1 John 2:5

but whoever keeps his word, in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him:

1 John 3:24

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

1 John 4:16

So we know and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:20

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

1 John 4:6

We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.