1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3This is eternal life, that they may know yoʋ, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom yoʋ have sent.
Galatians 4:9But now that you have come to know God (or rather to be known by God), how is it that you are turning back again to the weak and worthless elements? Do you wish to be enslaved to them once more?
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth through the Spirit, resulting in genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 4:8Whoever does not love does 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 →