Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.
New American Standard Bible
In this is love,
King James Version
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Holman Bible
Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us
International Standard Version
This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
A Conservative Version
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.
American Standard Version
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Amplified
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath].
An Understandable Version
Here is [the essence of] love: [It is] not that we loved God [first], but that He loved us [See Rom. 5:6-8] and sent His Son to be a "covering over" [i.e., atonement, 2:2] for our sins.
Anderson New Testament
In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.
Bible in Basic English
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
Common New Testament
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.
Darby Translation
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent forth his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Goodspeed New Testament
The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
John Wesley New Testament
Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.
Julia Smith Translation
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
King James 2000
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.
Modern King James verseion
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation concerning our sins.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins.
Moffatt New Testament
Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Montgomery New Testament
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
NET Bible
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
New Heart English Bible
In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Noyes New Testament
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Sawyer New Testament
In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
The Emphasized Bible
Herein, is love: not that, we, have loved God, but that, he, loved us, and sent forth his Son, as a propitiation concerning our sins.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.
Twentieth Century New Testament
His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Webster
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Weymouth New Testament
This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Williams New Testament
In this way is seen the true love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
World English Bible
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Worrell New Testament
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins.
Worsley New Testament
Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Youngs Literal Translation
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
Themes
The atonement » Exhibits the » Love of God
Condescension of God » Scriptures relating to
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Christ's dying for us while sinners
Propitiation » Expiation, sin-offering
Interlinear
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:10
Images 1 John 4:10
Prayers for 1 John 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
9 In this the divine love of God has been made manifest in us, because God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we may live through him. 10 In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us with divine love, we ought also to love one another with divine love.
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Cross References
1 John 2:2
he is the expiator for our sins: and not ours only, but indeed for the whole world.
1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ indeed once died for our sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but quickened in spirit:
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God; and we are. And on this account the world does not know us, because it did not know him.
1 John 4:19
Let us love with divine love, because he himself first loved us with divine love.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that every one believing on Him may not perish but have eternal life.
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you, and placed you in your position, that you may go forth and bear fruit, and your fruit may abide: in order that He may give you whatsoever you may ask in my name.
Romans 3:25-26
whom God sent forth an expiation through faith in his blood, unto the manifestation of His righteousness through the remission of the sins which are passed,
Romans 5:8-10
And God commends his love to us, because, we being yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:29-30
Because whom he did foreknow, he did also predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
as that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their transgressions to them, even having placed in us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:4-5
but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,
Titus 3:3-5
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
1 Peter 2:24
who himself has borne our sins in his own body on the wood, in order that we, being made free from sins, may live unto righteousness: by whose stripe you are healed.
1 John 4:8-9
The one not loving with divine love does not know God; because God is divine love.