1 John 4:8

World English Bible (2000)

He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same 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, for love is of 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; abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, for 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 glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God. 55 You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and 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 knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

    7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

  • 1 John 4:15-21
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    82%

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

    16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

    17 In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

    18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

    19 We love him, because he first loved us.

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

    21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

  • 1 John 4:9-13
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    9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

    10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

    12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

    13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
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    2 But if anyone thinks that he knows anything, he doesn't yet know as he ought to know.

    3 But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

  • 1 John 3:14-18
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    76%

    14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.

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

    16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

    17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and closes his heart of compassion against him, how does the love of God remain in him?

    18 My little children, let's not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

  • 1 John 5:1-3
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    1 Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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

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

  • John 5:42
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    42 But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

  • 1 John 3:10-11
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    10 In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.

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

  • 1 John 2:3-5
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    74%

    3 This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

    4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.

    5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

  • 2 Cor 11:11
    73%

    11 Why? Because I don't love you? God knows.

  • 1 John 3:1
    72%

    1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.

  • 1 John 2:15
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    15 Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him.

  • 1 Thess 4:9
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    9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

  • 1 John 3:6
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    6 Whoever remains in him doesn't sin. Whoever sins hasn't seen him, neither knows him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    70%

    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

  • John 13:35
    70%

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

  • 2 John 1:9
    70%

    9 Whoever transgresses and doesn't remain in the teaching of Christ, doesn't have God. He who remains in the teaching, the same has both the Father and the Son.

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

    4 But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    69%

    8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
    69%

    4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

  • 1 John 3:20
    69%

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

  • 1 John 2:11
    68%

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

  • 1 John 4:2
    68%

    2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,

  • Jas 4:17
    68%

    17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

  • 1 John 5:12
    68%

    12 He who has the Son has the life. He who doesn't have God's Son doesn't have the life.

  • 1 John 3:24
    68%

    24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

  • 3 John 1:11
    68%

    11 Beloved, don't imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn't seen God.

  • Rom 13:10
    68%

    10 Love doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.