Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. New Living Translation But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love. English Standard Version Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Berean Standard Bible Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. Berean Literal Bible The one not loving has not known God, because God is love. King James Bible He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. New King James Version He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. New American Standard Bible The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. NASB 1995 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. NASB 1977 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Legacy Standard Bible The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Amplified Bible The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.] Christian Standard Bible The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Holman Christian Standard Bible The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. American Standard Version He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because God is love, and everyone who does not love does not know God. Contemporary English Version God is love, and anyone who doesn't love others has never known him. Douay-Rheims Bible He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. English Revised Version He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. GOD'S WORD® Translation The person who doesn't love doesn't know God, because God is love. Good News Translation Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. International Standard Version The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. Literal Standard Version he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. Majority Standard Bible Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. New American Bible Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. NET Bible The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. New Revised Standard Version Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. New Heart English Bible He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. Webster's Bible Translation He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. Weymouth New Testament He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love. World English Bible He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. Young's Literal Translation he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Love Comes from God7Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.… Cross References 1 John 3:10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother. 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:16 And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love; whoever abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Treasury of Scripture He that loves not knows not God; for God is love. knoweth. 1 John 2:4,9 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him… 1 John 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. John 8:54,55 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: … God is. 1 John 1:5 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. Exodus 34:6,7 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, … Psalm 86:5,15 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee… Jump to Previous Destitute Love LovingJump to Next Destitute Love Loving1 John 4 1. He warns them not to believe all who boast of the Spirit;7. and exhorts to brotherly love. Verse 8. - In giving the opposite, St. John again varies the thought, this time very remarkably. Instead of "love is of God" (verse 7), we have "God is Love" - a far deeper thought; and instead of "knoweth not God," we have "knew not God," or, as we should say in English, "hath not known" or "never knew God." The man's not loving his brother shows that in no real sense has he ever in the past known God: he is of the world (chapter 3:1), not of God. We must beware of watering down "God is Love" into "God is loving," or even "God of all beings is the most loving." Love is not a mere attribute of God; like light, it is his very nature. As "God is Light" sums up the Being of God intellectually considered, so "God is Love" sums up the same on the moral side. Only when this strong meaning is given to the statement does St. John's argument hold, that "he that loveth not knoweth not God." A man who has no idea of any one of the attributes of God, as order, or beauty, or power, or justice, has an imperfect knowledge of God. But he who has no idea of love has no knowledge of God, for love is himself. God alone loves in the fullest and highest sense of the word; for he alone loves with perfect disinterestedness. It is love which alone can explain creation. Why should a Being perfectly blessed in himself create other beings, but to bestow a blessing upon them? Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Whoeverὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. does not love ἀγαπῶν (agapōn) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. does not know ἔγνω (egnō) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1097: A prolonged form of a primary verb; to 'know' in a great variety of applications and with many implications. God, Θεόν (Theon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. because ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. God Θεὸς (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. is ἐστίν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. love. ἀγάπη (agapē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. Links 1 John 4:8 NIV1 John 4:8 NLT 1 John 4:8 ESV 1 John 4:8 NASB 1 John 4:8 KJV 1 John 4:8 BibleApps.com 1 John 4:8 Biblia Paralela 1 John 4:8 Chinese Bible 1 John 4:8 French Bible 1 John 4:8 Catholic Bible NT Letters: 1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God (1J iJ 1Jn i jn 1 jo) |
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