1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
8Those who do not love know nothing of God, for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3And the eternal life is this – to know you the one true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent as your messenger.
Galatians 4:9But now that you have found God – or, rather, have been found by him – how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?
1 Thessalonians 4:9As to love for each other there is no need to write to you; for you have yourselves been taught by God to love one another;
1 Peter 1:22Now that, by your obedience to the truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;
1 John 2:29Since you know he is righteous, you realize that everyone who does what is right is his child.
1 John 4:8Those who do not love know nothing of 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 →