1 John 4:8
The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54Jesus responded, If I may glorify myself, my glory is nothing: my Father is the one glorifying me; whom you say, that, He is our God;
Ephesians 2:4but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5And the same message which we have heard from him, we also proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness.
1 John 2:9The one saying that he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness until now.
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another with divine love: because divine love is of God; and the one loving with divine love 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 →