1 John 4:7
Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should 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 to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
1 Peter 1:22Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently,
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 4:8He who doesn’t love doesn’t 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 →