1 John 4:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Yea, since love is his very nature, and that God is love, those that love (upon the account and in the way above expressed) are born of him, partake from him that excellent and most delectable nature, know him by a transformative knowledge: but they that love not, they are mere strangers to him, and never had to do with him.

1 John 4:8

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