Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Images 1 John 4:12
Prayers for 1 John 4:12
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Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
11 Dear friends, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 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. 13 We can know that we are continuing in union with Him and that He is continuing in union with us, by the fact that He has given us a portion of His Spirit.
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Cross References
John 1:18
No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.
1 Timothy 6:16
who alone possesses immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, and whom no man has seen or can see. To Him be eternal honour and power! Amen.
1 John 2:5
But whoever obeys His Message, in him love for God has in very deed reached perfection. By this we can know that we are in Him.
1 John 4:20
If any one says that he loves God, while he hates his brother man, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother man whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
1 Corinthians 13:13
And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love.
1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the immortal and invisible King of the Ages, who alone is God, be honour and glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.
Hebrews 11:27
Through faith he left Egypt, not being frightened by the king's anger; for he held on his course as seeing the unseen One.
1 John 3:24
The man who obeys His commands continues in union with God, and God continues in union with him; and through His Spirit whom He has given us we can know that He continues in union with us.
1 John 4:6
The man who is beginning to know God listens to us, but he who is not a child of God does not listen to us. By this test we can distinguish the Spirit of truth from the spirit of error.
1 John 4:17-18
Our love will be manifested in all its perfection by our having complete confidence on the day of the Judgement; because just what He is, we also are in the world.