1 John 4:10
In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins.
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11Most beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:7It is not because you surpass all the nations in number that the Lord has joined with you and has chosen you, for you are the least numerous of any people.
John 3:16For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.
Romans 3:25whom God has offered as a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to reveal his justice for the remission of the former offenses,
Romans 8:29For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined, in conformity with the image of his Son, so that he might be the Firstborn among many brothers.
Ephesians 2:4Yet still, God, who is rich in mercy, for the sake of his exceedingly great charity with which he loved us,
1 Peter 2:24He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been 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 →