Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
God sent
General references
Bible References
Was
1 John 3:16
By this we know the love of Christ, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8
But God makes known his love to us in this, that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us:
Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not with him also freely give us all things?
God sent
1 John 4:10
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.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed;
John 5:23
that all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He that honors not the Son, honors not the Father who sent him.
John 6:29
Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe on him whom he has sent.
John 8:29
And he that sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.
Only
Mark 12:6
Therefore, having yet one son, his beloved, he sent him also to them last, saying, They will reverence my son.
John 1:14
And the "WORD became flesh, and tabernacled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and of truth.
John 3:18
He that believes on him is not condemned; but he that believes not is condemned already, because he has not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Hebrews 1:5
For to which of the angels did he at any time say: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
General references
Matthew 22:40
On these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
John 15:13
Greater love has no man than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends.
Hebrews 13:1
Let brotherly love continue.