1 John 4:8
He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
7Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of God.
Cross References
John 8:54"If I glorify myself." said Jesus, "my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifies me, and you say, ‘He is our God.’
Ephesians 2:4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him.
1 John 2:9He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God; and every one that loves us a child of 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 →