1 John 4:7
Beloved let vs love one another: for love cometh of God. And every one that loveth is borne of God and knoweth God.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3This is lyfe eternall that they myght knowe the that only very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowe of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But as touchynge brotherly love ye nede not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on another.
1 Peter 1:22And for as moche as ye have purified youre soules thorowe the sprete in obeyinge the trueth for to love brotherly withouten saynynge se that ye love one another with a pure hert fervently:
1 John 2:29Yf ye knowe that he is righteous knowe also that he which foloweth rightewesnes is borne of him.
1 John 4:8He that loveth not knoweth not 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 →