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

He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was.

Not

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

You did not take me for yourselves, but I took you for myself; and I gave you the work of going about and producing fruit which will be for ever; so that whatever request you make to the Father in my name he may give it to you.

But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

That is, that God was in Christ making peace between the world and himself, not putting their sins to their account, and having given to us the preaching of this news of peace.

But God, being full of mercy, through the great love which he had for us,

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

And sent

He is the offering for our sins; and not for ours only, but for all the world.

Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place.

Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.

Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

General references

And put the altar of burned offerings before the doorway of the House of the Tent of meeting.

And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

And keep in mind that you yourself were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: so I give you this order today.

Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

Go on loving your brothers in the faith.

We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.