1 John 4:8
Because God is love; and whoever loveth not, doth not know God.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54Jesus said to them: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father that glorifieth me, of whom ye say, He is our God.
Ephesians 2:4But God who is rich in his mercies, because of the great love with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5And this is the announcement, which we have heard from him and declare to you, that God is light, and no darkness at all is in him.
1 John 2:9Whoever therefore shall say that he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness until now.
1 John 4:7My beloved, let us love one another: because love is from God; and whoever 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 →