1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 86:5Will not Zion say that this man and that man were born in her? And the Most High himself has founded her.
John 8:54Jesus responded: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me. And you say about him that he is your God.
Ephesians 2:4Yet still, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5And this is the announcement which we have heard from him, and which we announce to you: that God is light, and in him there is no darkness.
1 John 2:9Whoever declares himself to be in the light, and yet hates his brother, is in the darkness even now.
1 John 4:7Most beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And everyone who loves is born 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 →