1 Corinthians 8:3
But if any one loveth God, that man is known of him.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
In Context
2And if any one thinketh that he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet, as he ought to know it.
Cross References
Matthew 7:23And then will I declare to them; I never knew you. Depart from me, ye doers of evil.
John 21:17Again, Jesus said to him the third time: Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? And it grieved Cephas, that he said to him the third time, Lovest thou me; and he said to him: My Lord, thou understandest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep for me.
Romans 11:2God hath not cast off those his people whom he before knew. Do ye not know, what, in the scripture of God, he said to Elijah? When he had complained to God against Israel, and said:
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 8:2-4
On Things Offered to Idols. ( a. d. 57.) 1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. 2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know. 3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him. The apostle comes here to the case of things that had been offered to idols, concerning which some of them sought satisfaction: a case that frequently occurred in that age of Christianity, when the church… Read the whole commentary →