1 John 4:8

1 John 1:5; 1 John 2:4; 1 John 2:9; 1 John 3:6; 2 Corinthians 13:11; Ephesians 2:4; Exodus 34:6; Exodus 34:7; Hebrews 12:29; John 8:54; John 8:55; Psalms 86:15; Psalms 86:5

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He that loveth not, knoweth not God - Has no true acquaintance with God; has no just views of him, and no right feelings toward him. The reason f...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

He that loveth not knoweth not God; (8) for God is love. (8) A confirmation: for it is the nature of God to love men, of which we have a most manife...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John returns to the theme of 1 John 3:14 ff., be cause if the Church is the home of truth, still more is it the home of love. The evidence for our...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

He also sets in opposition to this, according to his usual manner, the contrary clause, that there is no knowledge of God where there is no lov...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. He that loveth not - As already described, knoweth not God - has no experimental knowledge of hi...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For God is love.— God is the most benevolent of all beings, full of love to his depending creatures; so that in him there is nothing wanting to the...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Knoweth not, х egnoo ( G1097 ), aorist] - not only knoweth not now, but never has on...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Fellowship with God in Love 1. Try the spirits] RV 'Prove the spirits.' The verb is used of testing metals. 2, 3 . See on 2 John 1:7 .
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

God is love ] the third fundamental maxim (see Intro.). Love is not merely an attribute of God, it is His very Being. Hence to be without love is to...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE PERFECT LOVE THE SUREST TEST ( 1 John 4:7-21 ). ( a ) Fraternal love the necessary product of the true knowledge of God, because God is love...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Token of God's Love 1 John 4:1-11 In those days the intense ferment of men's minds wrought many delusions and heresies which were fraught w...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Two closely related perils threaten our fellowship with God as love, false prophets and the spirit which actuates them. Teaching is to be tested by t...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. (8) He that loveth not knoweth not Go...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

‘GOD IS LOVE’ ‘God is love.’ 1 John 4:8 This Epistle was an Epistle General, that is, it was not directed to any local Church. St. John was...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

He that loveth not, knoweth not God ,.... If a man loves not the children of God, those that are born of him, he does not know, so as to love God, t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Ver. 8. Knoweth not God ] If moral virtue could be seen with mortal eyes, saith Plato, it wo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Let us love one another From the doctrine he has just been defending, he draws this exhortation: as if he had said, Think it not enough speculative...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

But there must be guards as to the operation of the Spirit of God, that is, the child of God must be guarded against all that would imitate the opera...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Brotherly Love. A. D. 80. 7 Beloved, let us...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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, parta...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Is Essentially Light and Love, Holy Love, And Therefore Those who Are His and Know Him and Abide in Him Will Reveal That Love To All Who Are His...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES 1 John 4:7 .—The previous verses are in some sense an “aside.” The apostle now resumes his proper theme. His main t...
Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:7-10 Love is of God; God is Love. I. "Love is of God." This does not mean merely that love comes from God and has its source in God, tha...
Sermon Bible Commentary

1 John 4:8 I. In perfect love there are three elements, which may best be seen by examining the three states of life in which they are respectivel...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the worl...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirit whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the worl...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 John 4:1 . Beloved, believe not every spirit, A simpleton believes every word that he hears, but «the wise man's eyes are in his head,» so he...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 John 4:1 . Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God. Whether those teachers believe that Christ is come in the fles...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION 1 John 4:1 - 1 John 5:12 (2) The source of son-ship. Possession of the Spirit. 1 John 4:1-62 Confession of the Inc...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The greatness of God's love:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is Love.
Wells of Living Water Commentary

Testing the True and the False 1 John 4:1-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have in our opening verses some important admonitions, and also some import...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Love of God Chapter 1 John 4:7-21 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have always thought of the thirteenth chapter of I Corinthians as the Love Chapter...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

God is love — This little sentence brought St. John more sweetness, even in the time he was writing it, than the whole world can bring. God is ofte...

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

Related Commentaries of 1 John 4:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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