1 John 4:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 ¶ This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare 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 full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 ¶ Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one 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 born of God, and knoweth God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, [art] good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy 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, unto the third and to 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 darkness even until now.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 ¶ But God, who is 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 honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:› 55 ‹Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.›

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
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    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.

    7¶ Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born 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 dwelleth in him, and he in God.

    16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

    17¶ Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

    19We love him, 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, how can he 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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    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.

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

    12No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

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

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    2And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

    3But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

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    14¶ We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not [his] brother abideth in death.

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

    16Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the brethren.

    17But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels [of compassion] from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

    18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

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

    2By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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

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    42‹But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.›

  • 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.

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

  • 1 John 2:3-5
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    3¶ And hereby we do 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 is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.

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

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    1¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore 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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    9¶ But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I 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 known him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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    9Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

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    4¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

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

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    24‹He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.›

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    20¶ For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

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    11But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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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:

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    17Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.

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    12He that hath the Son hath life; [and] he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

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

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

  • Rom 13:10
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    10Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love [is] the fulfilling of the law.