1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’
Ephesians 2:4Yet God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5This is the message that we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:9Whoever says he is in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness.
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows 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 →