1 John 4:8
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 86:5You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.
John 8:54Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.
Ephesians 2:4But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
1 John 1:5This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
1 John 2:9He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
1 John 4:7My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of 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 →