1 John 4:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, O Lord, are a God full of pity and forgiveness, slow to get angry, great in mercy and wisdom.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 You are good, O Lord, and full of forgiveness; your mercy is great to all who make their cry to you.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the Lord went past before his eyes, saying, The Lord, the Lord, a God full of pity and grace, slow to wrath and great in mercy and faith; 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is an all-burning fire.
  • John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God. 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    6 We are of God: he who has the knowledge of God gives ear to us; he who is not of God does not give ear to us. By this we may see which is the true spirit, and which is the spirit of error.

    7 My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    15 Everyone who says openly that Jesus is the Son of God, has God in him and is in God.

    16 And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

    17 In this way love is made complete in us, so that we may be without fear on the day of judging, because as he is, so are we in this world.

    18 There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.

    19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

    20 If a man says, I have love for God, and has hate for his brother, his words are false: for how is the man who has no love for his brother whom he has seen, able to have love for God whom he has not seen?

    21 And this is the word which we have from him, that he who has love for God is to have the same love for his brother.

  • 1 John 4:9-13
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    9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

    10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

    11 My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.

    12 No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:

    13 And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    79%

    2 If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;

    3 But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

  • 1 John 3:14-18
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    14 We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.

    15 Anyone who has hate for his brother is a taker of life, and you may be certain that no taker of life has eternal life in him.

    16 In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.

    17 But if a man has this world's goods, and sees that his brother is in need, and keeps his heart shut against his brother, how is it possible for the love of God to be in him?

    18 My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Everyone who has faith that Jesus is the Christ is a child of God: and everyone who has love for the Father has love for his child.

    2 In this way, we are certain that we have love for the children of God, when we have love for God and keep his laws.

    3 For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

  • John 5:42
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    42 But I have knowledge of you that you have no love for God in your hearts.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10 In this way it is clear who are the children of God and who are the children of the Evil One; anyone who does not do righteousness or who has no love for his brother, is not a child of God.

    11 Because this is the word which was given to you from the first, that we are to have love for one another;

  • 1 John 2:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws.

    4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

    5 But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:

  • 2 Cor 11:11
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    11 Why? because I have no love for you? let God be judge.

  • 1 John 3:1
    72%

    1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Have no love for the world or for the things which are in the world. If any man has love for the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    70%

    9 But about loving the brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you in this letter: for you have the teaching of God that love for one another is right and necessary;

  • 1 John 3:6
    70%

    6 Anyone who is in him does no sin; anyone who is a sinner has not seen him and has no knowledge of him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    70%

    5 Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

  • John 13:35
    70%

    35 By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

  • 2 John 1:9
    70%

    9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

    4 But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

  • Rom 5:8
    69%

    8 But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24 He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
    69%

    4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

  • 1 John 3:20
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    20 When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

  • 1 John 2:11
    68%

    11 But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

  • 1 John 4:2
    68%

    2 By this you may have knowledge of the Spirit of God: every spirit which says that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God:

  • Jas 4:17
    68%

    17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

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

  • 1 John 3:24
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    24 He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which he gave us is our witness that he is in us.

  • 3 John 1:11
    68%

    11 My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.

  • Rom 13:10
    68%

    10 Love does no wrong to his neighbour, so love makes the law complete.