1 John 4:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

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  • Isa 64:4 : 4 Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 (See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
  • 1 John 3:24 : 24 And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.
  • 1 John 4:8-9 : 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • 1 Cor 2:9 : 9 But just as it is written,“Things that no eye has seen, or ear heard, or mind imagined, are the things God has prepared for those who love him.”
  • 1 John 4:12-13 : 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
  • John 6:69 : 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”
  • Ps 18:1-3 : 1 For the music director; by the LORD’s servant David, who sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD rescued him from the power of all his enemies, including Saul. He said:“I love you, LORD, my source of strength! 2 The LORD is my high ridge, my stronghold, my deliverer. My God is my rocky summit where I take shelter, my shield, the horn that saves me, and my refuge. 3 I called to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I was delivered from my enemies.
  • Ps 31:19 : 19 How great is your favor, which you store up for your loyal followers! In plain sight of everyone you bestow it on those who take shelter in you.
  • Ps 36:7-9 : 7 How precious is your loyal love, O God! The human race finds shelter under your wings. 8 They are filled with food from your house, and you allow them to drink from the river of your delicacies. 9 For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.

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    6We are from God; the person who knows God listens to us, but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

    7God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.

    8The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

    10In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    13By this we know that we reside in God and he in us: in that he has given us of his Spirit.

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    15If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.

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    17By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears punishment has not been perfected in love.

    19We love because he loved us first.

    20If anyone says“I love God” and yet hates his fellow Christian, he is a liar, because the one who does not love his fellow Christian whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

    21And the commandment we have from him is this: that the one who loves God should love his fellow Christian too.

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    23Now this is his commandment: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he gave us the commandment.

    24And the person who keeps his commandments resides in God, and God in him. Now by this we know that God resides in us: by the Spirit he has given us.

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    5But whoever obeys his word, truly in this person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in him.

    6The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

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    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • 1 John 3:14
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    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 1 John 5:19-20
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    19We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

    20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.

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    3Keeping God’s Commandments Now by this we know that we have come to know God: if we keep his commandments.

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    1(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children– and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

    2Dear friends, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that whenever it is revealed we will be like him, because we will see him just as he is.

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    18Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth.

    19And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,

    20that if our conscience condemns us, that God is greater than our conscience and knows all things.

    21Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,

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    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

    2By this we know that we love the children of God: whenever we love God and obey his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep his commandments. And his commandments do not weigh us down,

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    3But if someone loves God, he is known by God.

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    23Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

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    6Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

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    4You are from God, little children, and have conquered them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

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    13Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

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    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

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    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus as the Christ who has come in the flesh is from God,

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    5God Is Light, So We Must Walk in the Light Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

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    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

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    9Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.

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    3What we have seen and heard we announce to you too, so that you may have fellowship with us(and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ).

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    2because of the truth that resides in us and will be with us forever.

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    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

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    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

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    6(Now this is love: that we walk according to his commandments.) This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning; thus you should walk in it.

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    15And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

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    28Children of God And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.

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    11God Is Love, So We Must Love One Another For this is the gospel message that you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another,