1 John 4:12 (WEB)
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.
Catechism · 1
“He, then, gives us the "pledge" or "first fruits" of our inheritance: the very life of the Holy Trinity, which is to love as "God (has) loved us."” — Catechism footnote: 1 Jn 4: 12; cf. Rom 8:23; 2 Cor 1:21.
Fathers and councils · 6
Tertullian
“…a distinction between the invisible Father and the visible Son, he makes the additional assertion, ex abundanti as it were: “No man hath seen God at any time.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 12.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Fellowship with God must be had, other hope of life eternal is none; now “God is Light, and in Him is no darkness at all:” now iniquities are darkness; by iniquities we are pressed down, that we cannot have fellowship with God: what hope have we then?” — editor's note: [Fellowship.—The primary object of the apostle’s communication in this epistle (1 John i. 3), is that his readers may have fellowship with the apostolic body,…
Read the whole comment““No man hath seen God at any time:” He is a thing invisible; not with the eye but with the heart must He be sought.” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 12.
Read the whole comment“See, beloved: “If we love one another, God will dwell in us, and His love will be perfected in us.”” — editor's note: 1 John. iv. 12.
Read the whole comment“For man has not whence to love God, unless from God; and therefore he says a little after, “Let us love Him, because He first loved us.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 7–19
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John Cassian
“And so the same Apostle well adds the words: “Whoever believeth that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and the love of God is perfected in him.”” — editor's note: 1 John iv. 12.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius IV.5.
Cited together in Catechism §735.
Cited together in Catechism §735.
Cited together in Catechism §735.