1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
8He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.
Cross References
John 17:3"And this is eternal life, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.
Galatians 4:9Now, however, when you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you are beginning to turn back to those weak and beggarly externalities, eager to be in bondage to them again?
1 Thessalonians 4:9It is not needed that I should write to you about brotherly love; for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Now that by obedience to the truth you have purified your lives for a brotherly love without hypocrisy, you must love one another from your hearts, fervently.
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous you know also that every one who habitually practises righteousness has been born of him.
1 John 4:8He who does not love, does not 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 →