Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
He who does not love has not learned to know 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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he that loveth not, knoweth not 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.
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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οὐ
Ou
not, no, cannot ,
Usage: 1032
theos
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Usage: 1151
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 Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God. 8 He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love. 9 The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:11
And now, brothers, good-bye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.
1 John 1:5
These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you-- 'God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.'
1 John 4:16
And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us. God is Love; and he who lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
John 8:54-55
"If I do honor to myself," answered Jesus, "such honor counts for nothing. It is my Father who does me honor--and you say that he is your God;
Ephesians 2:4
Yet God, in his abundant compassion, and because of the great love with which he loved us,
Hebrews 12:29
For our God is 'a consuming fire.'
1 John 2:4
The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;
1 John 2:9
He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.
1 John 3:6
No one who maintains union with him lives in sin; no one who lives in sin has ever really seen him or learned to know him.
1 John 4:7
Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God.