1 John 4:10
In this is the love, not that we loved God but that He loved us—He even sent His Son as the propitiation for our sins.
Family 35 New Testament
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In Context
11Dear ones, since God loved us in this way we are obligated to love one another, really.
Cross References
John 3:16Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.
Romans 3:25whom God has openly made available as a propitiation through the faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness because of the passing over, in God's forbearance, of the previously committed sins;
Romans 8:29Because whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
Ephesians 2:4But God—being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
1 Peter 2:24who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that we, having died to those sins, might live for the righteousness; by whose wound you 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 →