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1 John 4:8
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1 John 4:8
8He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
8Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
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1 John 4:8
Loves; regards with affection, goodwill, or devoted care.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Affection, goodwill, devoted regard, or charity; as a verb, to regard with such affection or goodwill.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study16And 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.
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Open the full verse study7Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
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Open the full verse study15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
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Open the full verse study11Finally, 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.
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Open the full verse study5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
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Open the full verse study4But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
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Open the full verse study6And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
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Open the full verse study5This 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.
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Open the full verse study6Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
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Open the full verse study9He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
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Open the full verse study54Jesus 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:
55Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
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Open the full verse study4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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Open the full verse study29For our God is a consuming fire.
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