1 John 4:10 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering 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 are decreed for your people and for your set-apart city, to put an end to the transgression, and to seal up sins, and to cover crookedness, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophet, and to anoint the Most Set-apart.

John 13:34

“A renewed command I give to you, that you love one another, 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 remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name He might give you.

John 3:16

“For Elohim so loved the world that He gave His only brought-forth Son, so that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but possess everlasting life.

John 6:51

“I am the living bread which came down out of the heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. And indeed, the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.”

Hebrews 2:17

So in every way He had to be made like His brothers, in order to become a compassionate and trustworthy High Priest in matters related to Elohim, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the timber, so that we, having died to sins, might live unto righteousness – by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18

Because even Messiah once suffered for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to Elohim, having been put to death indeed in flesh but made alive in the Spirit,

1 John 2:2

And He Himself is an atoning offering for our sins, and not for ours only but also for all the world.

1 John 3:1

See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of Elohim! For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us.

1 John 5:11

And this is the witness: that Elohim has given us everlasting life, and this life is in His Son.