1 John 4:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion and gracious, slow to anger, and plentiful 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 from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For You, Lord, are good and ready to forgive, and abundant in mercy to all them that call upon You.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in goodness and truth," 7 "Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and by no means clearing the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His 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 honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father who honors me; of whom you say, that he is your God: 55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
    2 verses
    89%

    6We are from God. He who knows God listens to us; he who 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, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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

    15Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.

    16And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.

    17In this love has been perfected among us, 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 casts out fear, because fear involves torment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

    19We love Him because He first loved us.

    20If someone says, 'I love God,' and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

    21And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.

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

    9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, 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 propitiation for our sins.

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

    12No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

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

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2And if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know.

    3But if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.

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

    14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

    15Whoever hates his brother is a murderer: and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

    16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

    18My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child born of them.

    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 burdensome.

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

    10In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not do righteousness is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.

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

  • 1 John 2:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3And by this we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

    4He who says, I know him, and does not keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

    5But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him: by this we know that we are in him.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
    73%

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

  • 1 John 3:1
    72%

    1Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore 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 him.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    70%

    9But concerning brotherly love, you do not need that I write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 1 John 3:6
    70%

    6Whoever abides in him does not sin: whoever sins has not seen him, nor known him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    70%

    5Not in passionate lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God:

  • John 13:35
    70%

    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • 2 John 1:9
    70%

    9Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

    4But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    69%

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

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24He who does not love me does not keep my words: and the word which you hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
    69%

    4Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud,

  • 1 John 3:20
    69%

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

  • 1 John 2:11
    68%

    11But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:2
    68%

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

  • Jas 4:17
    68%

    17Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

  • 1 John 5:12
    68%

    12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  • 1 John 3:24
    68%

    24And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit which he has given us.

  • 3 John 1:11
    68%

    11Beloved, do not follow what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: but he who 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.