1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3and this is eternal life, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou hast sent, Jesus, the Messiah.
Galatians 4:9But now after having known God, or rather being known of God, how turn ye back again to those weak and beggarly elements, to which again a second time ye desire to be in bondage?
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning brotherly love, I have no need to write unto you: for ye yourselves are divinely taught to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Having purified your souls by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto fraternal affection undissembled, love each other intensely out of a pure heart:
1 John 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, know that every one who practises righteousness is born of him.
1 John 4:8He that loveth not, never knew 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 →