No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.If we love one another, God abideth in us — This is treated of, 1 John 4:13-16.And his love is perfected — Has its full effect.In us — This is treated of, 1 John 4:17-19. read more
2. The one confirmatory test love. The threefold love between God, the believer, and the brethren, 1 John 4:7-21. The one test is love; centered in God, 8; and manifested to us in Christ, 9-11; into which love we come by union through faith with Christ and God, 12-16; which love may be perfected in us, 17-19; and this divine love is love to our fellow-man, 20, 21. Our apostle does not argue and reason out this statement; he affirms it, aphoristically and positively, by successive... read more
12. No man hath seen God Neither with bodily nor mental eye. And so we can know him as he is, love, only in the light of that circumfused love wherewith we love one another and him, to which we attain through the divine Propitiator, who has reconciled and unified us all in love, and through whom God has given us his Spirit, affirming him to be love. If we love one another with divine love, our incapacity to ocularly see God is remedied in this luminiferous ether of love. read more
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - 1 John 4:12
seen: 1 John 4:20, Genesis 32:30, Exodus 33:20, Numbers 12:8, John 1:18, 1 Timothy 1:17, 1 Timothy 6:16, Hebrews 11:27 love one: 1 John 4:6, 1 John 3:24 and his: 1 John 4:17, 1 John 4:18, 1 John 2:5, 1 Corinthians 13:13 Reciprocal: Exodus 24:10 - saw Psalms 31:2 - an house John 3:21 - that his John 5:37 - Ye have John 6:46 - any John 6:56 - dwelleth John 14:17 - but John 14:20 - ye in John 17:23 - I 1 Corinthians 3:16 - the Spirit 2 Corinthians 6:16 - I will dwell Ephesians 4:6 - and in... read more