1 John 4:8
He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54“If I do honour to myself,” answered Jesus, “such honour counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honour — and you say that he is your God;
Ephesians 2:4Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,
1 John 1:5These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you — ‘God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.’
1 John 2:9He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.
1 John 4:7Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows 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 →