1 John 4:10
This is love! It's not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and he sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
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In Context
11Friends, if this is the way God loves us, we ought to love one another like this too.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:7It wasn't because there were so many of you that the Lord loved you more than any other nation, in fact he chose you though there were so few of you.
John 3:16For God loved the world, and this is how: he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who trusts in him shouldn't die, but have eternal life.
Romans 3:25God openly presented Jesus as the gift that brings peace to those trusting in him, the one who shed his blood. God did this to demonstrate he is truly good and right, for previously he would hold back and pass over sins,
Romans 8:29For God, choosing them in advance, set them apart to be like his Son, so that the Son would be the first of many brothers and sisters.
Ephesians 2:4But God in his generous mercy, because of the amazing love he had for us
1 Peter 2:24He took the consequences of our sins on himself in his body on the cross, so that we could die to sin and live rightly. “By his wounds you are 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 →