1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God, and every one who loves is born of God, and knows God.
Revised King James 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 17:3And this is life eternal, that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
Galatians 4:9But now that you have come to know God, or rather, to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to those weak and beggarly principles, to which you again desire to be in bondage?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But regarding brotherly love you do not need any one to write to you: for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Since you have purified your souls by obeying the truth, so you have a sincere love of the brethren; love one another fervently from the heart.
1 John 2:29If you know that he is righteous, you know that every one who does right 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 →