1 John 4:10 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ 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)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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

¹⁰ 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.

1 John 4:10 Cross References

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks of years are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

John 3:16

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

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he had to be made like his brethren in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make expiation for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

1 John 2:2

and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 4:19

We love, because he first loved us.

1 John 5:11

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