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1 Corinthians 8:3

But if anyone loves God [with awe-filled reverence, obedience and gratitude], he is known by Him [as His very own and is greatly loved].

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fraternity;   God Continued...;   Idolatry;   Love;   Righteous;   Wisdom;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Christ;   Thompson Chain Reference - Knowledge;   Knowledge, Divine;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   Known, Saints;   Saints;   The Topic Concordance - Knowledge;   Love;   Meat;   Sacrifice;   Stumbling/slipping;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Love to God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Meats;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Food;   Love;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Conscience;   Corinthians, First and Second, Theology of;   Strong and Weak;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Lutherans;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Knowledge;   Paul;   1 Corinthians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Conscience;   Food;   Idolatry;   Wine and Strong Drink;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Brotherly Love;   Love;   Paul;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 8 To Love, Have Affection for;   48 To Know, Perceive, Understand;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - God;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Charity;   Corinthians, First Epistle to the;   Food;   Foreknow;   Jude, the Epistle of;   Nicolaitans;   Offence;   Pauline Theology;   Salvation;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for May 27;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 10;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But whoever loves God is known by God.
Revised Standard Version
But if one loves God, one is known by him.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But yf eny man love god the same is knowen of him.
Hebrew Names Version
But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
International Standard Version
But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.by him">[fn]Exodus 33:12,17; Nahum 1:7; Matthew 7:23; Galatians 4:9; 2 Timothy 2:19;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
New Century Version
But if any person loves God, that person is known by God.
Update Bible Version
but if any man loves God, the same is known by him.
Webster's Bible Translation
But if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
English Standard Version
But if anyone loves God, he is known by God.
World English Bible
But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
But if any one love God, he is known by him. I say, as to the eating of things sacrificed to idols,
Weymouth's New Testament
but if any one loves God, that man is known by God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And if ony man loueth God, this is knowun of hym.
English Revised Version
but if any man loveth God, the same is known of him.
Berean Standard Bible
But the one who loves God is known by God.
Contemporary English Version
But God has no doubts about who loves him.
American Standard Version
but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
Bible in Basic English
But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.
Complete Jewish Bible
However, if someone loves God, God knows him.
Darby Translation
But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
Etheridge Translation
but if a man love Aloha, this (one) is acknowledged of him.
Murdock Translation
But if any one loveth God, that man is known of him.
King James Version (1611)
But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
New Living Translation
But the person who loves God is the one whom God recognizes.
New Life Bible
But if he loves God, he is known by God also.
New Revised Standard
but anyone who loves God is known by him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
George Lamsa Translation
But if any man loves God, the same is known of him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, if anyone loveth God, the same, is known of him -
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if any man love God, the same is known by him.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
But if any man loue God, the same is knowen of him.
Good News Translation
But the person who loves God is known by him.
Christian Standard Bible®
But if anyone loves God, he is known by him.
King James Version
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
Lexham English Bible
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by him.
Literal Translation
But if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.
Young's Literal Translation
and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But yf eny man loue God, the same is knowne of him.
Mace New Testament (1729)
but if a man love God, the same is taught by him.
New English Translation
But if someone loves God, he is known by God.
New King James Version
But if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The true measure of a man is in how much he loves God and how much he understands how much God loves him.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
but if anyone loves God, he is known by Him.
Legacy Standard Bible
but if anyone loves God, he has been known by Him.

Contextual Overview

1Now about food sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge [concerning this]. Knowledge [alone] makes [people self-righteously] arrogant, but love [that unselfishly seeks the best for others] builds up and encourages others to grow [in wisdom]. 2If anyone imagines that he knows and understands anything [of divine matters, without love], he has not yet known as he ought to know. 3But if anyone loves God [with awe-filled reverence, obedience and gratitude], he is known by Him [as His very own and is greatly loved].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

love: 1 Corinthians 2:9, Romans 8:28, James 1:12, James 2:5, 1 Peter 1:8, 1 John 4:19, 1 John 5:2, 1 John 5:3

is: Exodus 33:12, Exodus 33:17, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Nahum 1:7, Matthew 7:23, John 10:14, John 21:17, Romans 8:29, Romans 11:2, Galatians 4:9, 2 Timothy 2:19, Revelation 2:9, Revelation 2:13, Revelation 2:19, Revelation 3:8, Revelation 3:9, Revelation 3:15, Revelation 3:16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 7:9 - which keepeth Deuteronomy 30:6 - to love the Lord Joshua 23:11 - love Judges 5:31 - them that 1 Kings 3:3 - loved Psalms 31:7 - known Psalms 97:10 - Ye that Jeremiah 24:5 - I acknowledge Hosea 13:5 - know Matthew 25:12 - I know Luke 13:27 - I tell John 10:27 - and I Romans 5:5 - because 1 Corinthians 13:13 - charity 2 Thessalonians 3:5 - into

Cross-References

Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, on that same day all the fountains of the great deep [subterranean waters] burst open, and the windows and floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:24
The waters covered [all of] the earth for a hundred and fifty days (five months).

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But if any man love God,.... As they do, and show it, who love their brethren, and are careful not to grieve them; and make use of their superior knowledge, not for their destruction, but edification:

the same is known of him; is taught by him, made to know more by him; such an one increases in spiritual knowledge, or he is highly approved of, esteemed, and beloved by God: he takes a special and particular notice of him, manifests his love to him, and will own and acknowledge him another day, when proud, haughty, overbearing, and hard hearted professors, will be rejected by him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But if any man love God - If any man is truly attached to God; if he seeks to serve him, and to promote his glory. The sense seems to be this. “There is no true and real knowledge which is not connected with love to God. This will prompt a man also to love his brethren, and will lead him to promote their happiness. A man’s course, therefore, is not to be regulated by mere knowledge, but the grand principle is love to God and love to man. Love edifies; love promotes happiness; love will prompt to what is right; and love will secure the approbation of God.” Thus, explained. this difficult verse accords with the whole scope of the parenthesis, which is to show that a man should not be guided in his contact with others by mere knowledge, however great that may be; but that a safer and better principle was “love, charity” (ἀγάπη agapē), whether exercised toward God or man. Under the guidance of this, man would be in little danger of error, Under the direction of mere knowledge he would never be sure of a safe guide; see 1 Corinthians 13:1-13.

The same is known of him - The words “is known” (ἔγνωσται egnōstai) I suppose to be taken here in the sense of “is approved by God; is loved by him; meets with his favor, etc.” In this sense the word “known” is often used in the Scriptures. See the note at Matthew 7:23. The sense is, “If any man acts under the influence of sacred charity, or love to God, and consequent love to man, he will meet with the approbation of God. He will seek his glory, and the good of his brethren; he will be likely to do right; and God will approve of his intentions and desires, and will regard him as his child. Little distinguished, therefore, as he may be for human knowledge, for that science which puffs up with vain self-confidence, yet he will have a more truly elevated rank, and will meet with the approbation and praise of God. This is of more value than mere knowledge, and this love is a far safer guide than any mere intellectual attainments.” So the world would have found it to be if they had acted on it; and so Christians would always find it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Corinthians 8:3. But if any man love God — In that way which the commandment requires, which will necessarily beget love to his neighbour, the same is known of him - is approved of God, and acknowledged as his genuine follower.


 
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