1 John 4:12 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

ASV:

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

BBE:

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

DBY:

No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.

ERV:

No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

WEY:

No one has ever yet seen God. If we love one another, God continues in union with us, and His love in all its perfection is in our hearts.

WBS:

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

WEB:

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

YLT:

God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

1 John 4:12 Cross References

XREF:

John 1:18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.

1 Timothy 6:16 who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

1 John 2:5 but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

1 John 4:17 By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

1 John 4:20 If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

4:12 {10} No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is {g} perfected in us.
(10) A third reason: Because God is invisible, therefore by this effect of his Spirit, that is, by charity, he is understood to be not out of us, but united with us and in us, in whom he is so effectually working.
(g) Is surely in us indeed, and in truth.

PNT:

4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. He is invisible to mortal eyes, yet we may have a sense of his presence in us. If we love each other he dwells in us.
His love is perfected in us. It is made complete by our loving each other. It is incomplete unless his love for us is supplemented by brotherly love. This love in us is the proof that God is in us.

WES:

4:12 If we love one another, God abideth in us - This is treated of, 1John 4:13 - 16. And his love is perfected - Has its full effect. In us - This is treated of, 1John 4:17 - 19.

MHC:

4:7-13 The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. He that does not love the image of God in his people, has no saving knowledge of God. For it is God's nature to be kind, and to give happiness. The law of God is love; and all would have been perfectly happy, had all obeyed it. The provision of the gospel, for the forgiveness of sin, and the salvation of sinners, consistently with God's glory and justice, shows that God is love. Mystery and darkness rest upon many things yet. God has so shown himself to be love, that we cannot come short of eternal happiness, unless through unbelief and impenitence, although strict justice would condemn us to hopeless misery, because we break our Creator's laws. None of our words or thoughts can do justice to the free, astonishing love of a holy God towards sinners, who could not profit or harm him, whom he might justly crush in a moment, and whose deserving of his vengeance was shown in the method by which they were saved, though he could by his almighty Word have created other worlds, with more perfect beings, if he had seen fit. Search we the whole universe for love in its most glorious displays? It is to be found in the person and the cross of Christ. Does love exist between God and sinners? Here was the origin, not that we loved God, but that he freely loved us. His love could not be designed to be fruitless upon us, and when its proper end and issue are gained and produced, it may be said to be perfected. So faith is perfected by its works. Thus it will appear that God dwells in us by his new-creating Spirit. A loving Christian is a perfect Christian; set him to any good duty, and he is perfect to it, he is expert at it. Love oils the wheels of his affections, and sets him on that which is helpful to his brethren. A man that goes about a business with ill will, always does it badly. That God dwells in us and we in him, were words too high for mortals to use, had not God put them before us. But how may it be known whether the testimony to this does proceed from the Holy Ghost? Those who are truly persuaded that they are the sons of God, cannot but call him Abba, Father. From love to him, they hate sin, and whatever disagrees with his will, and they have a sound and hearty desire to do his will. Such testimony is the testimony of the Holy Ghost.

CONC:

Abides Abideth Beheld Complete Continues Dwelleth Hearts Love Perfected Perfection Remains Union Yet

Abides Complete Continues Dwelleth Hearts Love Perfected Perfection Time Union

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