Where Love Is

1 John 4:7-12 NIV
God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

John repeats his emphasis on love. An additional description and why. We are told what our response ought to be.

John says here that no one has seen God, but Jesus said that seeing Him is the same as seeing God. In another place we are told He is the exact image of God.

Love is given as evidence that God lives in us, unified by His Spirit. John tells us that love fulfilled in our lives is the intent of God's love. Where love is, there is God.