Only Love Can Know Love
1 John 4:7-10
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.…


Blindness cannot understand what light is; it has not the power to experience it. The degraded savage cannot appreciate the noble man. He has not in himself the moral qualities by which the higher nature can be understood. A coward cannot have just and adequate ideas of courage; it is a thing foreign to him. So, to understand the love of God, there must be something within us akin to it, to which it appeals. He who loves most understands God best; he who does not love does not know God in the slightest degree.

(Geo. Thompson.)



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

WEB: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.




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