Verse 8

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

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;