1 John 4:15
Good News Translation
If we declare that Jesus is the Son of God, we live in union with God and God lives in union with us.

New Revised Standard Version
God abides in those who confess that Jesus is the Son of God, and they abide in God.

Contemporary English Version
God stays one with everyone who openly says Jesus is the Son of God. This is how we stay one with God

New American Bible
Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

confess.

1 John 4:2 By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

1 John 5:1,5 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him. . . .

Matthew 10:32 Every one therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.

Luke 12:8 And I say to you: Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God.

Romans 10:9 For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that the Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.

2 John 1:7 For many seducers are gone out into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a seducer and an antichrist.

God dwelleth.

1 John 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abideth in us: and his charity is perfected in us.

1 John 3:24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.

Context
Love Comes from God
14And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world. 15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God. 16And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.…
Cross References
John 6:56
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him.

Romans 10:9
For if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him up from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

1 John 2:23
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father also.

1 John 2:24
As for you, let that which you have heard from the beginning abide in you. If that abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning, you also shall abide in the Son and in the Father.

1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment: That we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as he hath given commandment unto us.

1 John 3:24
And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And in this we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us.

1 John 4:2
By this is the spirit of God known. Every spirit which confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

1 John 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God. And every one that loveth him who begot, loveth him also who is born of him.

1 John 5:5
Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

1 John 4:14
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