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 that loves not never knew God; because God is love.

Behold what manner of love the Father hath given to us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knows us not, because it knew Him not.

Not

We love, because He first loved us.

Ye did not choose Me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should abide; that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it you.

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

because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many brethren.

how that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having put in us the word of reconciliation.

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of His great love wherewith He loved us,

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving manifold desires 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 whole world.

Whom God set forth as a propitiation, through faith in His blood, for the manifestation of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the formerly-committed sins in the forbearance of God:

Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by Whose bruise ye were healed.

because Christ also suffered for sins once, a Righteous One in behalf of the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

General references

On these two commandments hangs the whole law, and the prophets."

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which is lost."

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

Let brotherly love continue.

We love, because He first loved us.