Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
New American Standard Bible
In this is love,
King James Version
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Holman Bible
Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us
International Standard Version
This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
A Conservative Version
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.
American Standard Version
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Amplified
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath].
An Understandable Version
Here is [the essence of] love: [It is] not that we loved God [first], but that He loved us [See Rom. 5:6-8] and sent His Son to be a "covering over" [i.e., atonement, 2:2] for our sins.
Anderson New Testament
In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.
Bible in Basic English
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
Common New Testament
In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Daniel Mace New Testament
and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins.
Darby Translation
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
Emphatic Diaglott Bible
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent forth his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Godbey New Testament
In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins.
Goodspeed New Testament
The love consists not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
John Wesley New Testament
Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, a propitiation for our sins.
King James 2000
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Lexham Expanded Bible
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son [to be the] propitiation for our sins.
Modern King James verseion
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation concerning our sins.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make a satisfaction for our sins.
Moffatt New Testament
Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us ??in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Montgomery New Testament
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
NET Bible
In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
New Heart English Bible
In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Noyes New Testament
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Sawyer New Testament
In this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
The Emphasized Bible
Herein, is love: not that, we, have loved God, but that, he, loved us, and sent forth his Son, as a propitiation concerning our sins.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.
Twentieth Century New Testament
His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Webster
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Weymouth New Testament
This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Williams New Testament
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.
World English Bible
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Worrell New Testament
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins.
Worsley New Testament
Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
Youngs Literal Translation
in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.
Themes
The atonement » Exhibits the » Love of God
Condescension of God » Scriptures relating to
John, beloved disciple » Facts concerning » Learned the lesson of love in the school of Christ
God, Love Of » Exhibited in » Christ's dying for us while sinners
Propitiation » Expiation, sin-offering
Interlinear
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ὅτι
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Word Count of 38 Translations in 1 John 4:10
Prayers for 1 John 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
9 In this was the love of God manifested in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world, that we might live by him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Dearly beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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Cross References
1 John 2:2
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just one for the unjust, that he might bring us near to God, truly put to death in the flesh, and made alive by the Spirit:
1 John 3:1
See ye, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: for this the world knows us not, for it knew him not.
1 John 4:19
We should love him, for he first loved us.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
Not for your multitude did Jehovah delight in you above all the peoples, and will he choose you, for ye were few more than all the peoples.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy seventy were divided upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to expiate iniquity, and to bring in eternal justice, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy of holies.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.
John 15:16
Ye chose not me, but I chose you, and I have set you, that ye might retire and bear fruit, and your fruit remain: that whatever ye ask the Father in my name, he might give you.
Romans 3:25-26
Whom God had set before a propitiatory by faith in his blood, for a manifestation of his justice by passing over of sins before existing, in the sufferance of God;
Romans 5:8-10
And God recommends his own love to us, that we yet being sinful, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:29-30
For whom he before knew, he also before determined of the form of the image of his Son, for him to be first born in many brethren.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
For as God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their faults; and having set in us the word of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,
Titus 3:3-5
For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.
1 Peter 2:24
Who himself bear up our sins in his body upon the wood, that we, removed from sins, should live to justice: by whose bloody mark ye were healed.
1 John 4:8-9
He not loving knows not God; for God is love.