1 John 4:8
He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In Context
Cross References
John 8:54"Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me--namely my Father, who you say is your God.
Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the intense love which He bestowed on us,
1 John 1:5This is the Message which we have heard from the Lord Jesus and now deliver to you--God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness.
1 John 2:9Any one who professes to be in the light and yet hates his brother man is still in darkness.
1 John 4:7Dear friends, let us love one another; for love has its origin in God, and every one who loves has become a child of God and is beginning to know 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 →