1st Corinthians Chapter 8 verse 3 Holy Bible
but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him.
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But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.
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But if any one love God, *he* is known of him):
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But if any man love God, the same is known of him.
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But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.
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and if any one doth love God, this one hath been known by Him.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - If any man love God, the same is known of him. We should have expected the sentence to end "the same knows him." St. Paul purposely alters the symmetry of the phrase. He did not wish to use any terms which would foster the already overgrown conceit of knowledge which was inflating the minds of his Corinthian converts. Further than this, he felt that "God knoweth them that are his" (2 Timothy 3:19), but that, since we are finite and God is infinite, we cannot measure the arm of God by the finger of man. Hence, although it is quite true that "Every one that loveth is begotten of God and knoweth God" (1 John 4:7), yet in writing to those whose love was very imperfect, St. Paul deliberately chooses the passive form of expression as in Galatians 4:9, "Now that ye have known God or are rather known of God."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) If any man love God.--This explains the nature of the love which edifies. Love to God, and therefore love to man, builds up the whole Christian communion. The man gets outside the mere selfish thought of his own indulgence in his liberty. There is the under-thought in these words ("the same is known of Him") of the identity between knowing God and being known of Him. The latter is the source of the former. Like water rising to its own level, the love and the knowledge rise as high as their source.
