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God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/1_john/4-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/1_john/4-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/1_john/4-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/1.htm">1 John</a> > <a href="/gntd/1_john/4.htm">Chapter 4</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_john/4-15.htm" title="1 John 4:15">◄</a> 1 John 4:16 <a href="../1_john/4-17.htm" title="1 John 4:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/1_john/4.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/1_john/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_john/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/1_john/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />and are sure God loves us. God is love. If we keep on loving others, we will stay one in our hearts with God, and he will stay one with us. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_john/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/1_john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.</p><p class="hdg">we.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9,10</a> By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-1.htm">1 John 3:1,16</a> Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/18-1.htm">Psalm 18:1-3</a> Unto the end, for David, the servant of the Lord, who spoke to the Lord the words of this canticle, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: and he said: [2] I will love thee, O Lord, my strength: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/31-19.htm">Psalm 31:19</a> O how great is the multitude of thy sweetness, O Lord, which thou hast hidden for them that fear thee! Which thou hast wrought for them that hope in thee, in the sight of the sons of men.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/36-7.htm">Psalm 36:7-9</a> O how hast thou multiplied thy mercy, O God! But the children of men shall put their trust under the cover of thy wings. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/64-4.htm">Isaiah 64:4</a> From the beginning of the world they have not heard, nor perceived with the ears: the eye hath not seen, O God, besides thee, what things thou hast prepared for them that wait for thee.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/2-9.htm">1 Corinthians 2:9</a> But, as it is written: That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard: neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.</p><p class="hdg">God is love.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-8.htm">1 John 4:8,12,13</a> He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity. . . . </p><p class="hdg">and he.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/4-12.htm">1 John 4:12</a> No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_john/3-24.htm">1 John 3:24</a> And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/1_john/4.htm">Love Comes from God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.</span> <span class="reftext">17</span>In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/6-69.htm">John 6:69</a></span><br />And we have believed and have known that thou art the Christ, the Son of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../john/9-3.htm">John 9:3</a></span><br />Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-7.htm">1 John 4:7</a></span><br />Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for charity is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-8.htm">1 John 4:8</a></span><br />He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is charity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-9.htm">1 John 4:9</a></span><br />By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../1_john/4-12.htm">1 John 4:12</a></span><br />No man hath seen God at any time. 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