Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

God is love

General references

Bible References

We

1 John 4:9
In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him.
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
1 Corinthians 2:9
But, as has been written, the things which eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and has not entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.

God is love

1 John 4:8
The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.

And he

1 John 4:12
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.
1 John 3:24
And the one keeping his commandments abides in him, and he in him; and in this we know that he abides in us, he has given us of his Spirit.

General references

1 John 4:13
In this we know that we abide in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his spirit.