1 John 4:16

We have come to know and trust God's love for us; since God is love, whoever abides in love abides in God. Faith and love flow from God's own nature.

Cross-references · 11

• 1 Jn 3:24He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
• Ps 36:7–9How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
• 1 Jn 3:1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• 1 Jn 4:8–10He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
• Ps 18:1–3For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength.
• 1 Jn 4:12–13No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Ps 31:19Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!
• 1 Cor 2:9But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”
• John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Isa 64:4For from of old men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.

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