1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.
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In Context
8Those who don't love don't know God, for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3Eternal life is this: to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you sent.
Galatians 4:9But now you've come to know God—or better, to be known by God. So how can you go back to those useless and worthless rules? Do you want to be slaves to those rules all over again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9We certainly don't need to write and tell you to love fellow-believers, because God teaches you to love one another—
1 Peter 1:22Now that you've dedicated yourselves by following the truth, love each other sincerely like a true family.
1 John 2:29If you know he is good and right, then you also know that everyone who does what is right has been born of God.
1 John 4:8Those who don't love don't know God, for 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 →