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.

Bible References

Was

1 John 3:16
We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.
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.
Romans 5:8
But God proves his love for us by this, that Christ died for us when we were still sinners.
Romans 8:32
The God who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, surely He will give us everything besides!

God sent

1 John 4:10
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.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me: for he has consecrated me to preach the gospel to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release for captives and recovery of sight for the blind, to set free the oppressed,
John 5:23
that all men may honour the Son as they honour the Father. (He who does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who sent him.)
John 6:29
Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."
John 8:29
He who sent me is at my side; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him."

Only

Mark 12:6
He had still one left, a beloved son; he sent him to them last, saying, 'They will respect my son.'
John 1:14
So the Logos became flesh and tarried among us; we have seen his glory ??glory such as an only son enjoys from his father ??seen it to be full of grace and reality.
John 3:18
He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.
Hebrews 1:5
For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

General references

Matthew 22:40
The whole Law and the prophets hang upon these two commands."
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man has come to seek and save the lost."
John 15:13
To lay life down for his friends, man has no greater love than that.
Hebrews 13:1
Let your brotherly love continue.