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 that loves not knows not God; for God is love.

Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not.

Not

We love him, because he first loved us.

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all people:

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

But God commends his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,

For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

And sent

And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

Seventy weeks are determined upon your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;

Who his own self bore our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit:

General references

And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

And you shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.

And 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 thing today.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

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

Let brotherly love continue.

We love him, because he first loved us.