1 John 4:12 Cross References - Goodspeed

¹² No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.

¹⁸ No one has ever seen God; it is the divine Only Son, who leans upon his Father's breast, that has made him known.

¹³ So faith, hope, and love endure. These are the great three, and the greatest of them is love.

¹⁷ To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the one God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

¹⁶ who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

²⁷ Faith made him leave Egypt, unafraid of the king's anger, for he persevered as though he saw him who is unseen.

⁵ but whoever obeys his message really has the love of God in perfection in his heart. This is the way we can be sure that we are in union with him;

²⁴ All who obey his commands keep in union with him, and he does with them; and this is how we know that he keeps in union with us—by the Spirit which he has given us.

⁶ We are God's children. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not a child of God will not listen to us. In this way we can tell what is inspired by truth from what is inspired by error.

¹⁷ Love attains perfection in us, when we have perfect confidence about the Day of Judgment, because here in this world we are living as he lives. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear. For fear suggests punishment and no one who feels fear has attained perfect love.

²⁰ If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.