1Jo 4:8-9 | ESV | STEP | Anyone who does not love does not know God , because God is love .

b ver. 16; 2 Cor. 13:11; [ch. 1:5; John 4:24]

1 John 4:8-9

8 ^aAnyone who does not love does not know God, because ^bGod is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that ^cGod sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him.