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1 John 4:10

WEB

10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice[+] for our sins.

KJV

10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

BSB

10And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice [+] for our sins.

FBV

10This 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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Extra References

Ephesians 2:4-5

4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us, 5even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Romans 5:8-10

8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. 10For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

1 John 4:19

19We love him,[+] because he first loved us.

1 John 2:2

2And he is the atoning sacrifice[+] for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

John 15:16

16You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

1 John 4:8-9

8He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love. 9By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born[+] Son into the world that we might live through him.

John 3:16

16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born[+] Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

1 John 3:1

1See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.

Titus 3:3-5

3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

Deuteronomy 7:7-8

7The LORD didn’t set his love on you nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples; 8but because the LORD loves you, and because he desires to keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.