1YHN 4:8 Parallel Verse View

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Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, orange:accusative/object, red:negative.
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UST God’s character is to love people. So whoever does not love others is not living in relationship with God.

AICNT The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

OEB Those who do not love know nothing of God, for God is love.

WEBBE He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

LSV he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

FBV Those who don't love don't know God, for God is love.

TCNT Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

T4T God’s nature is to love all people. So those who do not love their fellow believers do not ◄know/have a relationship with► God.

LEB The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

BBE He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

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Wymth He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.

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

DRA He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is charity.

YLT he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.

Drby He that loves not has not known [fn]God; for [fn]God is love.

4.8 Elohim

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

Wbstr He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love.

KJB-1769 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
(He that loveth/loves not knoweth/knows not God; for God is love. )

KJB-1611 Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Gnva Hee that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
(He that loveth/loves not, knoweth/knows not God: for God is love. )

Cvdl He that loueth not, knoweth not God: for God is loue.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

TNT He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love.
(He that loveth/loves not knoweth/knows not God: for God is love. )

Wycl He that loueth not, knowith not God; for God is charite.
(He that loveth/loves not, knoweth/knows not God; for God is charity.)

Luth Wer nicht liebhat, der kennet GOtt nicht; denn GOtt ist die Liebe:
(Who not liebhat, the/of_the kennet God not; because God is the Liebe:)

ClVg Qui non diligit, non novit Deum: quoniam Deus caritas est.[fn]
(Who not/no diligit, not/no novit God: quoniam God caritas it_is. )

4.8 Quoniam Deus charitas. Non differt charitas in Deo, cum justus et justitia dicatur, ut diligens et dilectio quia non transnominative a justitia dicitur justus vel diligens dilectione, quasi justitiam vel dilectionem a se distinctam habeat, sed quia est justitia et dilectio sua.

4.8 Quoniam God charitas. Non differt charitas in Deo, when/with justus and justitia let_him_sayur, as diligens and dilectio because not/no transnominative from justitia it_is_said justus or diligens dilectione, as_if justitiam or dilectionem from se distinctam habeat, but because it_is justitia and dilectio sua.

UGNT ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν, οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν.
(ho maʸ agapōn, ouk egnō ton Theon, hoti ho Theos agapaʸ estin.)

SBL-GNT ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν θεόν, ὅτι ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν.
(ho maʸ agapōn ouk egnō ton theon, hoti ho theos agapaʸ estin.)

TC-GNT Ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν· ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν.
(Ho maʸ agapōn ouk egnō ton Theon; hoti ho Theos agapaʸ estin. )

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result

ὁ μὴ ἀγαπῶν, οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν

the_‹one› not loving not knew ¬the God because ¬the God love is

If it would be helpful in your language, you could reverse the order of these phrases, since the second phrase gives the reason for the result that the first phrase describes. Alternate translation: [Since God is love, the one who does not love does not know God]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

οὐκ ἔγνω τὸν Θεόν

not knew ¬the God

As in 2:4, John is using the word know in a specific sense. See how you translated it there. Alternate translation: [does not have a close relationship with God]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν

the_‹one› ¬the God love is

This is a metaphor that describes what God is like in his character. Alternate translation: [God is entirely loving]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν

the_‹one› ¬the God love is

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind the abstract noun love with an adjective such as “loving.” Alternate translation: [God is entirely loving]

Parallel 1YHN 4:8