1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son, an atonement for our sins.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also are obligated to love each other.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:7LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people, for ye were the fewest of all peoples,
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.
Romans 3:25whom God set forth an expiatory sacrifice through faith in his blood, for proof of his justice, because of the passing over of the sins that have formerly occurred
Romans 8:29Because whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be of similar nature of the form of his Son, in order for him to be the firstborn son among many brothers.
Ephesians 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, through his great love that he loved us,
1 Peter 2:24Who himself took up our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live to the righteousness of him from whose wound ye were healed.
Matthew Henry on 1 John 4:8-14
Brotherly Love. ( a. d. 80.) 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 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. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one… Read the whole commentary →