1 John 4:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.
  • 1 John 1:5 : 5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all;
  • Ps 86:15 : 15 And Thou, O Lord, `art' God, merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth.
  • 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
  • 1 John 4:7 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;
  • Ps 86:5 : 5 For Thou, Lord, `art' good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.
  • Exod 34:6-7 : 6 and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, 7 keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third `generation', and on a fourth.'
  • 1 John 2:4 : 4 he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;
  • 1 John 2:9 : 9 he who is saying, in the light he is, and his brother is hating, in the darkness he is till now;
  • 1 John 3:6 : 6 every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,
  • Heb 12:29 : 29 for also 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 is glorifying me, of whom ye say that He is your God; 55 and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 John 4:6-7
    2 verses
    89%

    6we -- of God we are; he who is knowing God doth hear us; he who is not of God, doth not hear us; from this we know the spirit of the truth, and the spirit of the error.

    7Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God;

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

    15whoever may confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God in him doth remain, and he in God;

    16and we -- we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

    17In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we -- we also are in this world;

    18fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

    19we -- we love him, because He -- He first loved us;

    20if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

    21and this `is' the command we have from Him, that he who is loving God, may also love his brother.

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

    9In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

    10in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

    12God no one hath ever seen; if we may love one another, God in us doth remain, and His love is having been perfected in us;

    13in this we know that in Him we do remain, and He in us, because of His Spirit He hath given us.

  • 1 Cor 8:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2and if any one doth think to know anything, he hath not yet known anything according as it behoveth `him' to know;

    3and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.

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

    14we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

    15Every one who is hating his brother -- a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

    16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

    17and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him -- how doth the love of God remain in him?

    18My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

  • 1 John 5:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

    2in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

    3for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

  • John 5:42
    75%

    42but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

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

    10In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

    11because this is the message that ye did hear from the beginning, that we may love one another,

  • 1 John 2:3-5
    3 verses
    74%

    3and in this we know that we have known him, if his commands we may keep;

    4he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

    5and whoever may keep his word, truly in him the love of God hath been perfected; in this we know that in him we are.

  • 2 Cor 11:11
    73%

    11wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

  • 1 John 3:1
    72%

    1See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

  • 1 John 2:15
    72%

    15Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

  • 1 Thess 4:9
    70%

    9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

  • 1 John 3:6
    70%

    6every one who is remaining in him doth not sin; every one who is sinning, hath not seen him, nor known him.

  • 1 Thess 4:5
    70%

    5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

  • John 13:35
    70%

    35in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • 2 John 1:9
    70%

    9every one who is transgressing, and is not remaining in the teaching of the Christ, hath not God; he who is remaining in the teaching of the Christ, this one hath both the Father and the Son;

  • Eph 2:4
    70%

    4and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

  • Rom 5:8
    69%

    8and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

  • John 14:24
    69%

    24he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.

  • 1 Cor 13:4
    69%

    4The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

  • 1 John 3:20
    69%

    20because if our heart may condemn -- because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

  • 1 John 2:11
    68%

    11and he who is hating his brother, in the darkness he is, and in the darkness he doth walk, and he hath not known whither he doth go, because the darkness did blind his eyes.

  • 1 John 4:2
    68%

    2in this know ye the Spirit of God; every spirit that doth confess Jesus Christ in the flesh having come, of God it is,

  • Jas 4:17
    68%

    17to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

  • 1 John 5:12
    68%

    12he who is having the Son, hath the life; he who is not having the Son of God -- the life he hath not.

  • 1 John 3:24
    68%

    24and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

  • 3 John 1:11
    68%

    11Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;

  • Rom 13:10
    68%

    10the love to the neighbor doth work no ill; the love, therefore, `is' the fulness of law.