1 John 4:7
Beloved, may we love one another, because love is of God, and everyone loving has been begotten of God, and knows God;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3and this is the continuous life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Him whom You sent—Jesus Christ;
Galatians 4:9and now, having known God—and rather being known by God—how [do] you turn again to the weak and poor elements to which you desire anew to be in servitude?
1 Thessalonians 4:9And concerning the brotherly love, you have no need of [my] writing to you, for you yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
1 Peter 1:22Having purified your souls in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to unhypocritical brotherly love, love one another earnestly out of a pure heart,
1 John 2:29if you know that He is righteous, know that everyone doing righteousness, has been begotten of Him.
1 John 4:8he who is not loving did 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 →