1 John 4:10

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1 John 4:10

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.

1 John 2:2

And He is Himself the atoning sacrifice for our sins; and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

See what wonderful love the Father has bestowed on us in letting us be called God's children, and that is what we are! This is why the world does not know what we are, because it has never come to know Him.

1 John 4:19

We love, because He loved us first.

John 3:16

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

Romans 3:25-26

For God once publicly offered Him in His death as a sacrifice of reconciliation through faith, to demonstrate His own justice (for in His forbearance God had passed over men's former sins);

Romans 5:8-10

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

Romans 8:29-30

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

2 Corinthians 5:19-21

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

Ephesians 2:4-5

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

Titus 3:3-5

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

1 Peter 2:24

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

1 John 4:8-9

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

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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

Titus 3:3

And sent

General references

1 John 4:19

Bible References

Herein

Whoever does not love has never come to know God by experience, because God is love.

Not

We love, because He loved us first.

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

But God proves His love for us by the fact that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

For it was through Christ that God was reconciling the world to Himself instead of debiting men's offenses against them, and He has committed to me the message of this reconciliation.

But God, who is so rich in mercy on account of the great love He has for us,

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

And sent

And He is Himself the atoning sacrifice for our sins; and not for ours alone, but also for the whole world.

For God once publicly offered Him in His death as a sacrifice of reconciliation through faith, to demonstrate His own justice (for in His forbearance God had passed over men's former sins);

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

For Christ Himself, once for all, died for our sins, the Innocent for the guilty to bring us to God, being put to death in physical form but made alive in the Spirit,

General references

The essence of the whole law and the prophets is packed into these two commands."

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the people that are lost."

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

You must let your brotherly love continue.

We love, because He loved us first.