1 John 4:8

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The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God who is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon You.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 The LORD passed in front of him and proclaimed: "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. 7 Maintaining steadfast love to thousands, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin, but not leaving the guilty unpunished. He punishes the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations."
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates their brother or sister is still in the darkness.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which 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 who glorifies me, whom you claim as your God. 55 Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I know him and I keep his word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
    2 verses
    89%

    6We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this, we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
    7 verses
    82%

    15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God remains in them, and they in God.

    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

    19We love because He first loved us.

    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

  • 1 John 4:9-13
    5 verses
    80%

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

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

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2If anyone thinks they know something, they do not yet know as they ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, they are known by Him.

  • 1 John 3:14-18
    5 verses
    76%

    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

    15Everyone who hates their brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in them.

    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

    17But whoever has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need, yet closes his heart against them, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well.

    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

    3For this is the love of God: that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

  • John 5:42
    75%

    42But I know you, that you do not have the love of God within you.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

  • 1 John 2:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments.

    4Anyone who claims, 'I have come to know Him,' but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in them.

    5But whoever keeps His word, truly in that person the love of God has been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
    73%

    11Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

  • 1 John 3:1
    72%

    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    70%

    9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 1 John 3:6
    70%

    6No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    70%

    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • John 13:35
    70%

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • 2 John 1:9
    70%

    9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    69%

    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24The one who does not love me does not keep my words. The word you hear is not my own but belongs to the Father who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
    69%

    4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

  • 1 John 3:20
    69%

    20For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart and knows all things.

  • 1 John 2:11
    68%

    11But the one who hates their brother or sister is in the darkness and walks in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.

  • 1 John 4:2
    68%

    2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.

  • Jas 4:17
    68%

    17So, if anyone knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

  • 1 John 5:12
    68%

    12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  • 1 John 3:24
    68%

    24The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. And by this we know that He abides in us: through the Spirit He has given us.

  • 3 John 1:11
    68%

    11Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

  • Rom 13:10
    68%

    10Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.