Verse 8

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive, And abundant in lovingkindness unto all them that call upon thee.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And Jehovah passed by before him, and proclaimed, Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness and truth; 7 keeping lovingkindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for our God is a consuming fire.
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God; 55 and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.