Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 1 John 4:8

“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”

1 John 4:8 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 John 4:8, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of 1 John 4. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

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

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 13 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 John 4:16And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
  • 1 John 4:7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
  • Psalms 86:15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
  • 2 Corinthians 13:11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
  • Psalms 86:5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
  • Exodus 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
  • Ephesians 2:4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
  • 1 John 1:5This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
  • 1 John 3:6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
  • 1 John 2:9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
  • John 8:54Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:
  • 1 John 2:4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
  • Hebrews 12:29For our God is a consuming fire.

More to meet God in 1 John

1 John 1:91 John 4:191 John 4:181 John 3:11 John 5:141 John 5:201 John 2:11 John 5:61 John 5:111 John 1:31 John 3:221 John 2:161 John 2:131 John 1:2

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.