约翰壹书 4:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

　神對我們的愛，我們已經明白了，而且相信了。　神就是愛；住在愛裡面的，就住在　神裡面，　神也住在他裡面。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
神 爱 我 们 的 心 ， 我 们 也 知 道 也 信 。 神 就 是 爱 ； 住 在 爱 里 面 的 ， 就 是 住 在 神 里 面 ， 神 也 住 在 他 里 面 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ We have seen and can testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God. ¹⁶ And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we: 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10, 1 John 3:1, 1 John 3:16, Psalms 18:1-3, Psalms 31:19, Psalms 36:7-9, Isaiah 64:4, 1 Corinthians 2:9

God is love: 1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:12, 1 John 4:13

and he: 1 John 4:12, 1 John 3:24

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 30:6 - to love the Lord Psalms 31:2 - an house Psalms 90:1 - Lord Psalms 91:1 - dwelleth Proverbs 15:17 - General Isaiah 32:18 - General Matthew 19:17 - there Mark 10:18 - that is John 3:21 - that his John 6:56 - dwelleth John 14:23 - make Romans 8:39 - love 1 Corinthians 3:16 - the Spirit Ephesians 1:4 - love Ephesians 2:22 - an Ephesians 3:17 - Christ Ephesians 4:16 - edifying Philippians 2:1 - if any comfort Colossians 1:4 - faith 1 John 2:5 - hereby 1 John 2:24 - ye also 1 John 4:4 - are 1 John 5:20 - and we

Cross-References

Genesis 3:8
Then they heard the Lord God walking in the garden during the cool part of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the Lord God among the trees in the garden.

Genesis 4:14
Today you have forced me to stop working the ground, and now I must hide from you. I must wander around on the earth, and anyone who meets me can kill me."

Exodus 20:18
When the people heard the thunder and the trumpet, and when they saw the lightning and the smoke rising from the mountain, they shook with fear and stood far away from the mountain.

2 Kings 13:23
But the Lord was kind to the Israelites; he had mercy on them and helped them because of his agreement with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. To this day he has never wanted to destroy them or reject them.

2 Kings 24:20
All this happened in Jerusalem and Judah because the Lord was angry with them. Finally, he threw them out of his presence. Zedekiah turned against the king of Babylon.

Job 1:12
The Lord said to Satan, "All right, then. Everything Job has is in your power, but you must not touch Job himself." Then Satan left the Lord 's presence.

Job 2:7
So Satan left the Lord 's presence. He put painful sores on Job's body, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.

Job 20:17
They will not admire the sparkling streams or the rivers flowing with honey and cream.

Psalms 5:11
But let everyone who trusts you be happy; let them sing glad songs forever. Protect those who love you and who are happy because of you.

Psalms 68:2
Blow them away as smoke is driven away by the wind. As wax melts before a fire, let the wicked be destroyed before God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And we have known and believed,.... Or have a full assurance and knowledge of, and faith in,

the love that God hath to us; shown as in many instances, so more especially in sending his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, to be the Saviour of us, and that we might live through him.

God is love; :-:

and he that dwelleth in love; who dwells by faith upon the love of God as displayed in Christ, and abides in the exercise of love to God and to the saints:

dwelleth in God, and God in him; :-; the last clause, "and God in him", is left out in the Syriac version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And we have known and believed ... - We all have assurance that God has loved us, and the fullest belief in the great fact of redemption by which he has manifested his love to us.

God is love - Notes, 1 John 4:8. It is not uncommon for John to repeat an important truth. He delights to dwell on such a truth as that which is here expressed; and who should not? What truth is there on which the mind can dwell with more pleasure; what is there that is better fitted to win the heart to holiness; what that will do more to sustain the soul in the sorrows and trials of this life? In our trials; in the darkness which is around us; in the perplexities which meet and embarrass us in regard to the divine administration; in all that seems to us incomprehensible in this world, and in the prospect of the next, let us learn to repeat this declaration of the favored disciple, ““God is love.”” What trials may we not bear, if we feel assured of that! What dark cloud that seems to hang over our way, and to involve all things in gloom, will not be bright, if from the depths of our souls we can always say, “God is love!”

And he that dwelleth in love ... - Religion is all love. God is love; he has loved us; we are to love him; we are to love one another; we are to love the whole world. Heaven is filled with love, and there is nothing else there. The earth is filled with love just as far as religion prevails, and would be entirely if it should prevail everywhere. Love would remove all the corrupt passions, the crimes, the jealousies, the wars on the earth, and would diffuse around the globe the bliss of heaven. If a man, therefore, is actuated by this, he has the spirit of the heavenly world reigning in his soul, and lives in an atmosphere of love.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 16. God is love — See note on 1 John 4:8. He that dwelleth in love-he who is full of love to God and man is full of God, for God is love; and where such love is, there is God, for he is the fountain and maintainer of it.