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1 John 4:8

WEB

8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

KJV

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

BSB

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

FBV

8Those who don't love don't know God, for God is love.

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Extra References

1 John 4:16

16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.


1 John 4:7

7Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.


Psalms 86:15

15But you, Lord, are a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth.


2 Corinthians 13:11

11Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.


Psalms 86:5

5For you, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, abundant in loving kindness to all those who call on you.


Ephesians 2:4

4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,


Exodus 34:6-7

6The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, 7keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”


1 John 1:5

5This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.


1 John 3:6

6Whoever remains in him doesn’t sin. Whoever sins hasn’t seen him and doesn’t know him.


1 John 2:9

9He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness even until now.