1 John 4:8
He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
Ephesians 2:4But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
1 John 1:5Now this is the message that we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and there is no darkness at all in Him.
1 John 2:9He who claims to be in the Light while hating his brother is in the darkness until now.
1 John 4:7Dear ones, we must love one another, because the love is of God and everyone who loves has been begotten by 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 →