But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
1 John 4:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. American Standard Version (1901) He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Common English Bible The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity. |
But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call on you.
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Be restored; listen to my appeal; agree with one another; live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
but God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us
This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light and in him there is no darkness at all.
Whoever says, “I have come to know him,” but does not obey his commandments is a liar, and in such a person the truth does not exist;
Whoever says, “I am in the light,” while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness.
The children of God and the children of the devil are revealed in this way: all who do not do what is right are not from God, nor are those who do not love a brother or sister.
No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him.
So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.