1 John 4:11-13

J.B. Phillips New Testament

¹¹ If God loved us as much as that, surely we, in our turn, should love each other!

^12-13 It is true that no human being has ever had a direct vision of God. Yet if we love each other God does actually live within us, and his love grows in us towards perfection. And, as I wrote above, the guarantee of our living in him and his living in us is the share of his own Spirit which he gives us.