1 John 4:7
Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by God and knows God.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3Now eternal life is this: that they may know You, the only true God, and the One whom You sent—Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9But now that you know God—better, are known by God—how can you turn back to those weak, yes decidedly inferior, basic principles, to which you wish to be enslaved all over again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now about brotherly love you do not need to be written to, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth through the Spirit, resulting in sincere brotherly love, you must love one another fervently from a pure heart,
1 John 2:29If you have understood that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been begotten by Him.
1 John 4:8He who 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 →