1 John 4:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

Common English Bible

⁹ This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The love of God was made apparent to us in this way: that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through him.

1 John 4:9 Cross References

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

1 John 5:11

And this is the testimony: God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

Romans 8:32

He who did not withhold his own Son but gave him up for all of us, how will he not with him also give us everything else?

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.

1 John 4:10

In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 3:16

We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers and sisters.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 3:18

Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Hebrews 1:5

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God, and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Mark 12:6

He had still one other, a beloved son. Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 6:29

Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

John 8:29

And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.”

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

Psalm 2:7

I will tell of the decree of the Lord: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have begotten you.

Genesis 22:2

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I shall show you.”

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.

1 John 5:13

I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.