Verse
1 John 4:8 — He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
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The verses around 1 John 4:8.
6We 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.
7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9In 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.
10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Verse explanation
The phrase “God is love” is not just one quality among others attributed to God, but practically a definition — the text uses this idea as the foundation for everything it says about loving one another in the verses that follow.
From the 1 John 4 study in Bible in Stories.
1 John 4:8 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
Aquelle que não ama não tem conhecido a Deus; porque Deus é caridade.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
Aquele que não ama não conhece a Deus, porque Deus é amor.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Los que no aman, no conocen a Dios, porque Dios es amor.
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In other languages: Português (1 João 4:8) · Español (1 Juan 4:8)
More verses about love
- 1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
- 1 Corinthians 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
- John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not…
- 1 John 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
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