1 John 4:7-8

God Is Love

⁷ _h Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who _i loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

1. Cross References
   1 John 3:10
   In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.
   1 John 3:11
   For this is the message that you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
   1 John 3:23
   And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 4:9
   But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
   1 John 3:14
   We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.