1 John 4:10

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.

Cross References

Daniel 9:24

Seventy weeks of years are concentrated on your people and on your holy city, so that transgression shall be finished, and sin shall reach an end, and iniquity shall be wiped away, and so that everlasting justice shall be brought in, and vision and prophecy shall be fulfilled, and the Saint of saints shall be anointed.

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also must you love one another.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

John 6:51

I am the living bread, who descended from heaven.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore, it is fitting for him to be made similar to his brothers in all things, so that he might become a merciful and faithful High Priest before God, in order that he might bring forgiveness to the offenses of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died once for our sins, the Just One on behalf of the unjust, so that he might offer us to God, having died, certainly, in the flesh, but having been enlivened by the Spirit.

1 John 2:2

And he is the propitiation for our sins. And not only for our sins, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 3:1

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.

1 John 4:19

Therefore, let us love God, for God first loved us.

1 John 5:11

And this is the testimony which God has given to us: Eternal Life. And this Life is in his Son.