1 John 4:10 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) Here is [the essence of] love: [It is] not that we loved God [first], but that He loved us [See Rom. 5:6-8] and sent His Son to be a “covering over” [see 2:2] of our sins. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins. American Standard Version (1901) Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Common English Bible This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sins. Catholic Public Domain Version In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. |