1 John 4:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 7 In this is the charity of God perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment: because as he is, we also are in this world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ 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)

⁸ He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

Common English Bible

⁸ The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Whoever does not love, does not know God. For God is love.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

1 John 4:8 Cross References

Psalm 86:15

Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.

Psalm 86:5

2 I will praise thee, O Lord my God: with my whole heart, and I will glorify thy name for ever:

2 Corinthians 13:11

I wonder that you are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto another gospel.

Ephesians 2:4

3 But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

Hebrews 12:29

Be not led away with various and strange doctrines. For it is best that the heart be established with grace, not with meats; which have not profited those that walk in them.

1 John 1:5

He who saith that he knoweth him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

1 John 2:4

3 I write unto you, fathers, because you have known him, who is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because you have overcome the wicked one.

1 John 2:9

8 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that Antichrist cometh, even now there are become many Antichrists: whereby we know that it is the last hour.

1 John 3:10

9 In this we know that we are of the truth: and in his sight shall persuade our hearts.

1 John 3:6

5 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in himself.

1 John 4:16

For whatsoever is born of God, overcometh the world: and this is the victory which overcometh the world, our faith.

1 John 4:7

6 And we have known, and have believed the charity, which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.