Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God sent his one and only Son into the world in order that we may live through him. 10 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. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought 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 sins of] the whole world.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, in order that he could bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,
1 John 3:1
See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called children of God, and we are! Because of this the world does not know us: because it did not know him.
1 John 4:19
We love, because he first loved us.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
"Yahweh loved you and chose you not {because of your great number} exceeding all [other] peoples, for you [are] fewer than all of the peoples,
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and {for your holy city}, to put an end to the transgression and to seal [up] sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring [in] everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint {the most holy place}.
John 3:16
For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
John 15:16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and your fruit should remain, in order that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Romans 3:25-26
whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins,
Romans 5:8-10
but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 8:29-30
because [those] whom he foreknew, he also predestined [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, so that he should be the firstborn among many brothers.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,
Titus 3:3-5
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.
1 Peter 2:24
who himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that [we] may die to sins [and] live to righteousness, by whose wounds you were healed.
1 John 4:8-9
The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.