1 John 4:8

New English Translation

The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Cross References

Psalm 86:15

But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God. You are patient and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness.

Psalm 86:5

Certainly O Lord, you are kind and forgiving, and show great faithfulness to all who cry out to you.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, set things right, be encouraged, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 2:4

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,

Hebrews 12:29

For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

1 John 1:5

Now this is the gospel message we have heard from him and announce to you: God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

1 John 2:4

The one who says “I have come to know God” and yet does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in such a person.

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

1 John 3:10

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are revealed: Everyone who does not practice righteousness – the one who does not love his fellow Christian – is not of God.

1 John 3:6

Everyone who resides in him does not sin; everyone who sins has neither seen him nor known him.

1 John 4:16

And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.

1 John 4:7

Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God.