1 John 4:10

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Summary

1 John 4:10

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Herein

1 John 4:8

1 John 3:1

Not

And sent

1 Peter 3:18

General references

Bible References

Herein

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

See

how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Not

We love, because He first loved us.

“The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any of the peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples,

You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

And sent

and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

“Seventy

weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation

in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed;

and He Himself

bore our sins in His body on the

cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;

General references

You shall set the altar of burnt offering in front of the doorway of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting.

You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.

Let love of the brethren continue.

We love, because He first loved us.