Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.
New American Standard Bible
The one who does not love does not know God, for
King James Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Holman Bible
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
International Standard Version
The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
A Conservative Version
He who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
American Standard Version
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Amplified
The one who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him], for God is love. [He is the originator of love, and it is an enduring attribute of His nature.]
An Understandable Version
The person who does not love [others] does not know God [as Savior], for [the very nature of] God is love.
Anderson New Testament
He that loves not, does not know God; for God is love.
Bible in Basic English
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
Common New Testament
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Daniel Mace New Testament
he that has not social affection, does not know God; for God is love.
Darby Translation
He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.
Godbey New Testament
The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.
Goodspeed New Testament
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
John Wesley New Testament
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
Julia Smith Translation
He not loving knows not God; for God is love.
King James 2000
He that loves not knows not God; for God is love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Modern King James verseion
The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.
Moffatt New Testament
he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.
Montgomery New Testament
He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.
NET Bible
The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
New Heart English Bible
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Noyes New Testament
he that loveth not hath not known God; for God is love.
Sawyer New Testament
He that loves not has not known God; for God is love.
The Emphasized Bible
He that doth not love, doth not understand God, because, God, is, love.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.
Twentieth Century New Testament
He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love.
Webster
He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.
Weymouth New Testament
He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
Williams New Testament
Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.
World English Bible
He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
Worrell New Testament
He that loves not never knew God; because God is love.
Worsley New Testament
He, that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.
Youngs Literal Translation
he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
Themes
God » Is declared to be » Love
Ignorance of God » Evidenced by » Want of love
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
Knowledge » Who does not know God
Interlinear
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Usage: 1032
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References
Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:8
Images 1 John 4:8
Prayers for 1 John 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
7 Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God. 8 And he that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love. 9 Herein appeared the love of God to us ward, because that God sent his only begotten son into the world, that we should live through him.
Names
Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brethren, fare ye well: be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace, shall be with you.
1 John 1:5
And this is the tidings which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1 John 4:16
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God in him.
Exodus 34:6-7
And when the LORD walked before him, he cried, "LORD, LORD God full of compassion and mercy, which art not lightly angry but abundant in mercy and truth,
Psalm 86:5
For thou, LORD, art good and gracious, and of great mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Psalm 86:15
But thou, O LORD God, art full of compassion and mercy, longsuffering, plenteous in goodness and truth.
John 8:54-55
Jesus answered, "If I honour myself, mine honour is nothing worth. It is my father that honoureth me, which ye say is your God.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, which is rich in mercy through his great love wherewith he loved us,
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is a consuming fire.
1 John 2:4
He that saith, "I know him," and yet keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the verity is not in him.
1 John 2:9
He that saith how that he is in the light, and yet hateth his brother, is in darkness even until this time.
1 John 3:6
All that abide in him, sin not: And all that sin hath not seen him, neither hath known him.
1 John 4:7
Dearly beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God. And all that love are born of God, and knoweth God.