1 John 4:8
The person who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 86:5You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, 1 and you show great mercy to all those who cry out to you. 1
John 8:54Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me—about whom you say that he is your God.
Ephesians 2:4But God is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us.
1 John 1:5This is the message that we have heard from him and are announcing to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
1 John 2:9The one who says that he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from 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 →