1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God.
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In Context
8The person who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3This is eternal life: That they know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Galatians 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather that you are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and worthless elemental principles? Do you want to be enslaved all over again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9Regarding brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth. This was for the purpose of sincere brotherly love; so love one another earnestly from the heart. + 1:22 Some older versions read, You made your souls pure by obedience to the truth through the Spirit .
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born from him.
1 John 4:8The person who does not love does not know 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 →