1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God: and every one that loves, has been begotten of God, and knows God.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3And this is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou has sent.
Galatians 4:9now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
1 Peter 1:22Having purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit, to unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another with a pure heart fervently,
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one that works righteousness has been begotten by him.
1 John 4:8He that loves not, does not know God; for 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 →