1 John 4:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 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.

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    6We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he who is not of God heareth us not. By this we know 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 begotten of God, and knoweth God.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    15Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in him, and he in God.

    16And 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.

    17Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

    19We love, because he first loved us.

    20If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, cannot love God whom he hath not seen.

    21And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.

  • 1 John 4:9-13
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    9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath 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.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us:

    13hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;

    3but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 3:14-18
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    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

    15Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

    16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

    17But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him?

    18[ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

    2Hereby we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.

    3For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

  • John 5:42
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    42But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

    11For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another:

  • 1 John 2:3-5
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    3And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

    5but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

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    11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.

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    1Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

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    6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither knoweth him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

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    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

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    9Whosoever goeth onward and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God: he that abideth in the teaching, the same hath both the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 2:4
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    4but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • John 14:24
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    24He that loveth me not keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
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    4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

  • 1 John 3:20
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    20because if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

  • 1 John 2:11
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    11But he that hateth his brother is in the darkness, and walketh in the darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because the darkness hath blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:2
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    2Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

  • Jas 4:17
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    17To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

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    24And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 3 John 1:11
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    11Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: love therefore is the fulfilment of the law.