1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love (o. agape) is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. (o. agape)
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, after that all of you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn all of you again to the weak and beggarly elements, unto which all of you desire again to be in bondage?
1 Thessalonians 4:9But as concerning brotherly love all of you need not that I write unto you: for all of you yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
1 Peter 1:22Seeing all of you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit (o. pneuma) unto sincere love of the brethren, see that all of you love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 John 2:29If all of you know that he is righteous, all of you know that every one that does righteousness is born of him.
1 John 4:8He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. (o. agape)
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 →