Lord, thank You. We do love You; we love You with Your love. We are in Your love. Thank You, Lord Jesus. Here we have the oneness, the oneness of the Triune God.
No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us.
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In God Himself the love of God itself is perfect and complete. However, in us it needs to be perfected and completed in its (manifestation). It was manifested to us in God's sending of His Son to be both a propitiatory (sacrifice) and life to us (vv. 9-10). Yet if we do not (love) one another with this love as it was manifested to us, that is, if we do not express it by loving one another with the love with which God loved us, it is not (manifested) perfectly and completely. This love is perfected and completed in its manifestation when we express it in our living by habitually loving one another with it.(See 1 John 4:12 note 4)