Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary 1 Corinthians 8:3

"but if any man loveth God, the same is known by him." — 1 Corinthians 8:3 (ASV)

With the essential ingredient of love, knowledge is tempered and made the right kind of discerning and compassionate knowledge exhibited when one loves God. In loving God, a person shows that he is known by God—that God recognizes him as his own and that he had the right kind of knowledge, because he is exercising it in love to his fellow Christians and to God.