1 John 4:7-12
1599 Geneva Bible
7 [a]Beloved, let us love one another: [b]for love cometh of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8 He that loveth not, knoweth not God, [c]for God is [d]love.
9 (A)Herein was that love of God made manifest amongst us, because God sent that his only begotten Son into this world, that we might live through him.
10 Herein is that love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a reconciliation for our sins.
11 [e]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 (B)[f]No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is [g]perfect in us.
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- 1 John 4:7 He returneth to the commending of brotherly love and charity.
- 1 John 4:7 The first reason: Because it is a very divine thing: and therefore very meet for the sons of God: so that whosoever is void of it, cannot be said to know God aright.
- 1 John 4:8 A confirmation: For it is the nature of God to love men, whereof we have a most manifest proof above all others: in that that of his only free and infinite goodwill towards us his enemies, he delivered unto death not a common man, but his own Son, yea, his only begotten Son, to the end that we being reconciled through his blood, might be made partakers of his everlasting glory.
- 1 John 4:8 In that he called God, Love he saith more than if he had said that he loveth us infinitely.
- 1 John 4:11 Another reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another.
- 1 John 4:12 A third reason: Because God is invisible, therefore by this effect of his Spirit, to wit, by charity, he is understood, yea, and to be not out of us, but joined with us, and in us, in whom he is so effectually working.
- 1 John 4:12 Is surely in us, in deed and in truth.
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