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1 John 4:8

Those who don't love don't know God, for God is love.

Free Bible Version

In The King James Version

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

In Context

7Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know God.

9How was God's love shown to us? God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we could live through him.

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Cross References

Psalms 86:5For you, Lord, are good; you are forgiving and full of trustworthy love for all who come to you.

John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory means nothing. But it is God himself who glorifies me, the one you claim, ‘He is our God.’

Ephesians 2:4But God in his generous mercy, because of the amazing love he had for us

1 John 1:5This is the message we received from him and that we declare to you: God is light, and there is absolutely no darkness in him at all.

1 John 2:9Those who say they live in the light but hate a fellow Christian still have the darkness inside them.

1 John 4:7Dear friends, let's go on loving one another, for love comes from God. All those who love are born of God and know 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 →

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