1 John 4:9
This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
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In Context
8Those who do not love know nothing of God, for God is love.
Cross References
Psalms 2:7I will tell of the Lord’s decree. He said to me: “You are my son, this day I became your father.
Luke 4:18‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, for he has consecrated me to bring good news to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, to set the oppressed at liberty,
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost, but have eternal life.
John 5:23so that everyone may honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. The person who does not honour the Son fails to honour the Father who sent him.
John 6:51I am the living bread that has come down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, they will live for ever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
John 8:29Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him.”
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 →