1 John 4:10
in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.
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In Context
11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:7YHWH has delighted in you and fixes on you, not because of your being more numerous than any of the peoples, for you [are] the least of all the peoples,
John 3:16for God so loved the world that He gave the only begotten Son, that everyone who is believing in Him may not perish, but may have continuous life.
Romans 3:25whom God set forth [as] a propitiatory covering, through faith in His blood, for the showing forth of His righteousness, because of the passing over of the former sins in the forbearance of God—
Romans 8:29because whom He foreknew, He also foreordained, conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be firstborn among many brothers;
Ephesians 2:4but God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,
1 Peter 2:24who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree that having died to sins, we may live to righteousness; by whose stripes 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 →