1 John 4:8
He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54Jesus answered, If I assume glory to myself, my glory is nothing: it is the Father who glorifies me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,
1 John 1:5And this is the promise which we have heard from him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and that darkness in him there is none.
1 John 2:9He who saith, that he is in the light, yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth 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 →