11 [a]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

12 (A)[b]No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is [c]perfect in us.

13 Hereby know we, that we dwell in him, and he in us: because he hath given us of his Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:11 Another reason by comparison: if God so loved us, shall not we his children love one another.
  2. 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.
  3. 1 John 4:12 Is surely in us, in deed and in truth.

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