1st John Chapter 4 verse 8 Holy Bible
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
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He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
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He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
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he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
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1st John 4 : 8 Bible Verse Songs
- Jehovah - Papa You are The One I Love by Imani Odera
- Lover - You're My Lover That I found by Capital City Music
- Only Love by Jordan Smith
- I Want To Know You by TY Bello + Nosa
- It All Comes Down To Love by Bebe Winans
- The God I Know by Love And The Outcome
- Love Theory by Kirk Franklin
- Overwhelmed by Life Center Worship
- That's the Love of God by Sandi Patty
- It's Your Love by Marshall Marshall
- Here In Your Love by The Belonging Co + Hope Darst
- O Love of God by Laura Story
- Love Divine by New Life Worship
- No Fear by Kari Jobe
- With Every Act Of Love by Jason Gray
- God is Love by The Worship Initiative
- God is Love by Katy Nichole
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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?
