Parallel Verses
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.
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 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.
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
Images 1 John 4:10
Prayers for 1 John 4:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Love Revealed
9 This is how the love of God has appeared for us, by God sending his only Son into the world, so that by him we might live. 10 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. 11 Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.
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Cross References
1 John 2:2
he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.
1 Peter 3:18
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.
1 John 3:1
'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.
1 John 4:19
We love, because He loved us first.
John 3:16
For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.
John 15:16
You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit ??fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.
Romans 3:25-26
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;
Romans 5:8-10
But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.
Romans 8:29-30
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.
2 Corinthians 5:19-21
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.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But, dead in trespasses as we were, God was so rich in mercy that for his great love to us
Titus 3:3-5
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.
1 Peter 2:24
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.
1 John 4:8-9
he who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.