1 John 4:7
Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3And this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only TRUE God, and Jesus Christ whom thou sent.
Galatians 4:9but now knowing God, but rather being known by God, how is it ye turn again to the weak and destitute elements to which ye desire again to be in bondage anew?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
1 Peter 1:22Men who have purified your souls in obedience of the truth through the Spirit for non-hypocritical brotherly love. Ye should love each other fervently from a pure heart,
1 John 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every man doing righteousness has been begotten of him.
1 John 4:8He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:5-7
Danger of Antichristian Spirit. ( a. d. 80.) 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. In these verses the apostle encourages the disciples against the fear and danger of this seducing antichristian… Read the whole commentary →