Parallel Verses
Williams New Testament
Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because 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.
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.
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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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 practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience. 8 Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love. 9 This is the way God's love for us has been shown, namely, God has sent His only Son into the world that we through Him might have life.
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Cross References
2 Corinthians 13:11
Finally, brothers, goodbye! Practice the perfecting of your characters, keep listening to my appeals, continue thinking in harmony and living in peace, and the loving, peace-giving God will be with you.
1 John 1:5
And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him.
1 John 4:16
So we know by experience and trust the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever continues to love continues in union with God and God in union with him.
John 8:54-55
Jesus answered, "If I glorify myself, such glory amounts to nothing. It is the Father who glorifies me; and you claim that He is your God.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,
Hebrews 12:29
for our God, indeed, is a consuming fire.
1 John 2:4
Whoever says, "I know Him," but does not practice obedience to His commands is a liar, and there is no truth in his heart;
1 John 2:9
Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness.
1 John 3:6
No one who continues to live in union with Him practices sin. No one who practices sin has ever seen Him or come to know Him.
1 John 4:7
Dearly beloved, let us practice loving one another, because love originates with God, and everyone who practices loving is a child of God and knows God by experience.