1 John 4:7
My beloved, let us love one another: because love is from God; and whoever loveth, is born of God and knoweth God.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
8Because God is love; and whoever loveth not, doth not know God.
Cross References
John 17:3And this is life eternal, that they may know thee, that thou art the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Messiah.
Galatians 4:9But now, since ye have known God, or rather, have been known by God, ye turn yourselves again to the weak and beggarly elements, and wish again to be under them!
1 Thessalonians 4:9Now concerning love to the brethren, ye need not that I should write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22while your minds became sanctified, by obedience to the truth; and ye be full of love, without respect of persons, so that ye love one another out of a pure and perfect heart;
1 John 2:29If ye know that he is righteous, ye also know, that whoever doeth righteousness, is from him.
1 John 4:8Because God is love; and whoever loveth not, doth not know God.
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 →