Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 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 the love of God was revealed in us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. 10 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. 11 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 concerning our sins, and not concerning ours only, but also concerning the sins of all the world.
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit;
1 John 3:1
Behold what manner of love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
1 John 4:19
We love Him because He first loved us.
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
Jehovah 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.
Daniel 9:24
Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 15:16
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 whatever you shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you.
Romans 3:25-26
whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness through the passing by of the sins that had taken place before, in the forbearance of God;
Romans 5:8-10
But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.
Romans 8:29-30
For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son, for Him to be the First-born among many brothers.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
whereas God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and putting the word of reconciliation in us.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us
Titus 3:3-5
For we ourselves also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 Peter 2:24
He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
1 John 4:8-9
The one who does not love has not known God. For God is love.