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Instead of "love is of God" (verse 7), we have "God is Love" - a far deeper thought; and instead of "knoweth not God," we have "knew not God," or, as we should say in English, "hath not known" or "never knew God."
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world.
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. TLB But if a person isn’t loving and kind, it shows that he doesn’t know God—for God is love.
NIV, The Woman's Study Bible, Full-Color, Red Letter: Receiving God's Truth for Balance, Hope, and Transformation. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Love comes from God, so those who demonstrate love show they have fellowship with Him. The inverse is also true. The person who does not demonstrate love does not know God.
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love. He that loves not has not known God; for God is love. He that loveth not, knoweth not God; for God is love. He who is destitute of love has never had any knowledge of God; because God is love.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
