1 John 4:9

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.

Was

God sent

John 8:29

Only

Hebrews 1:5

General references

Bible References

Was

By this we have known the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

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.

But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Truly He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

God sent

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.

"The Spirit of the Lord is on Me; because of this He has anointed Me to proclaim the Gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and new sight to the blind, to set at liberty those having been crushed,

so that all should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe on Him whom He has sent.

And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things which please Him.

Only

I will declare the decree of Jehovah. He has said to Me, You are My Son; today I have begotten You.

Therefore, still having one son, his own beloved, he also sent him to them last of all, saying, They will respect my son.

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.

He who believes on Him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only-begotten Son of God.

For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"

General references

And you shall set the altar of the burnt offering in front of the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.

And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.

On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

No one has greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Let brotherly love continue.