No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him:
who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in riddles, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”
By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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