1 John 4:8
He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 86:5For thou, LORD, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in loving kindness to all those who call upon thee.
John 8:54Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. My Father is he who glorifies me, of whom ye say, He is our God.
Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,
1 John 1:5And this is the message that we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:9He who claims to be in the light, and hates his brother, is in the darkness until now.
1 John 4:7Beloved, we should love each other. Because love is of God, and every man who loves has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:8-14
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one… Read the whole commentary →