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

Titus 3:3

And sent

General references

1 John 4:19

Bible References

Herein

he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

Not

We love, because He loved us first.

are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.

For he decreed of old that those whom he predestined should share the likeness of his Son ??that he might be the firstborn of a great brotherhood.

For in Christ God reconciled the world to himself instead of counting men's trespasses against them; and he entrusted me with the message of his reconciliation.

But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

And sent

he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

whom God put forward as the means of propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to demonstrate the justice of God in view of the fact that sins previously committed during the time of God's forbearance had been passed over;

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

General references

The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."

For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."

To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.

Let your brotherly love continue.

We love, because He loved us first.