1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; and everyone that loves has been born of God and knows God.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
8He that does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
Galatians 4:9But now, having known God, or rather, having been known by God, how is it that you turn again to the weak and worthless elements, to which once again you wish to be slaves?
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere love for the brothers, love one another fervently from a pure heart,
1 John 2:29If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of Him.
1 John 4:8He that 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 →