1 John 4:12-13

¹²No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.l

¹³By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.m

1 João 4 is the theological heart of John's first letter, pivoting from the call to love one another (chapter 3) to the foundation that makes such love possible: God's own nature as love. The chapter opens with a sober warning to test the spirits, distinguishing the Spirit of tru