1. Johannes 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
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Study Note
The declaration 'whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love' is one of only two places in the New Testament where a verbal sentence identifies God's essential nature with an attribute (the other is John 4:24: 'God is spirit'). The statement 'God is love' (ho Theos agape estin) is not simply 'love is God' — the predicate nominates a quality, not an identity — but it claims that love is not merely what God does but what God is. The argument is ethical: knowledge of God is demonstrated in love for the community, making love epistemologically tied to relationship with God. The verse has been central to liberal Protestant theology's emphasis on divine immanence and to contemporary discussions of divine passibility (whether God can suffer with others).
Andere Übersetzungen
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love.
He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.
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