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

General references

Bible References

Was

We know what love is--through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

He who did not withhold even His own Son, but gave Him up for all of us, will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

God sent

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.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor; He has sent me to announce release to the prisoners of war and recovery of sight to the blind: to send away free those whom tyranny has crushed,

that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father. The man who withholds honour from the Son withholds honour from the Father who sent Him.

"This," replied Jesus, "is above all the thing that God requires--that you should be believers in Him whom He has sent."

And He who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone: for I do always what is pleasing to Him."

Only

He had still one left whom he could send, a dearly-loved son: him last of all he sent, saying, "'They will treat my son with respect.'

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

General references

The whole of the Law and the Prophets is summed up in these two Commandments."

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

No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends.

Let brotherly love always continue.