1 John 4:10
And 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.
Note Or as a propitiation
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Note “atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Topics God’s Love
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Herein
- 1 John 4:8, 9; 1 John 3:1
- not
- 1 John 4:19; Deuteronomy 7:7, 8; John 15:16; Romans 5:8–10; Romans 8:29, 30; 2 Corinthians 5:19–21; Ephesians 2:4, 5; Titus 3:3–5
- and sent
- 1 John 2:2; Daniel 9:24; Romans 3:25, 26; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18