1 John 4:7-8

God Is Love

7 Beloved, ¹let us love one another, for love is from God, and ²whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 ³Anyone who does not love does not know God, because ⁴God is love.

1 John 4:7-8 In-Context

5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them.

6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Cross References

• 1. 1 John 3:11
• 2. 1 John 2:29
• 3. 1 John 3:10
• 4. ver. 16; 2 Corinthians 13:11; [1 John 1:5; John 4:24]