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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Holman Bible
No one has ever seen God.
International Standard Version
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us.
A Conservative Version
No man has ever seen God. If we love each other, God abides in us, and his love is in us, having been fully perfected.
American Standard Version
No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:
Amplified
No one has seen God at any time. But if we love one another [with unselfish concern], God abides in us, and His love [the love that is His essence abides in us and] is completed and perfected in us.
An Understandable Version
No person has gazed upon God [at any time]; [but] if we love one another, God [continually] lives in our hearts, and His love is made complete within us.
Anderson New Testament
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Bible in Basic English
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:
Common New Testament
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Daniel Mace New Testament
no man hath ever seen God. if we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and our love for him is then sincere.
Darby Translation
No one has seen God at any time: if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
No one has seen God, at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is made perfect in us.
Godbey New Testament
No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another with divine love, God abides in us, and his divine love has been made perfect in us.
Goodspeed New Testament
No one has ever seen God; yet if we love one another, God keeps in union with us and love for him attains perfection in our hearts.
John Wesley New Testament
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Julia Smith Translation
None has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is completed in us.
King James 2000
No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us and his love is perfected in us.
Modern King James verseion
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.
Moffatt New Testament
God no one has ever seen; but if we love one another, then God remains within us, and love for him is complete in us.
Montgomery New Testament
No man has ever gazed on God; but if we love one another, God ever abides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
NET Bible
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God resides in us, and his love is perfected in us.
New Heart English Bible
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.
Noyes New Testament
No one hath ever seen God. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Sawyer New Testament
No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God continues in us and his love is perfected in us.
The Emphasized Bible
Upon God, hath no one, at any time, gazed: If we love one another, God, in us, abideth, and, his love, hath been perfected within us.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Twentieth Century New Testament
No human eyes have ever seen God, yet, if we love one another, God remains in union with us, and his love attains its perfection in us.
Webster
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Weymouth New Testament
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.
Williams New Testament
No one has ever seen God; yet if we practice loving one another, God remains in union with us, and our love for Him attains perfection in our hearts,
World English Bible
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.
Worrell New Testament
No one has ever beheld God. If we love one another, God abideth in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
Worsley New Testament
No one hath ever seen God: but if we love one another, God dwelleth in us and his love is perfected in us.
Youngs Literal Translation
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;
Themes
God, Love Of » Perfected in saints » By brotherly love
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:12
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Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
11 Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, then we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us. 13 Hereby know we, that we abide in him, and he in us: For he hath given us of his spirit.
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Cross References
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time. The only begotten son, which is in the father's bosom, hath declared him.
1 Timothy 6:16
which only hath immortality, and dwelleth in light that no man can attain, whom never man saw, neither can see: unto whom be honour and rule everlasting. Amen.
1 John 2:5
He that keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfect, indeed. And hereby know we that we are in him.
1 John 4:20
If a man say, "I love God," and yet hate his brother, he is a liar. For how can he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, love God whom he hath not seen?
Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face to face, and yet is my life reserved."
Exodus 33:20
And he said furthermore, "Thou mayest not see my face, for there shall no man see me and live."
1 Corinthians 13:13
Now abideth faith, hope, and love, even these three: but the chief of these is love.
Numbers 12:8
Unto him I speak mouth to mouth and he seeth the sight and the fashion of the LORD, and not through riddles. Wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"
1 Timothy 1:17
So then unto God, King everlasting, immortal, invisible, and wise only, be honour and praise for ever and ever. Amen.
Hebrews 11:27
By faith he forsook Egypt, and feared not the fierceness of the king. For he endured, even as he had seen him which is invisible.
1 John 3:24
And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And thereby we know that there dwelleth in us of his spirit, which he gave us.
1 John 4:6
We be of God, and he that knoweth God heareth us: and he that is not of God, heareth us not. And hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:17-18
Herein is the love perfect with us, that we should have confidence in the day of judgment; For as he is, even so are we in this world.