1 John 4:10

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.

Cross References

1 John 2:2

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

1 John 4:19

Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you; and have appointed you, that you should go, and should bring forth fruit; and your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting.

1 John 3:1

Behold what manner of charity the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called, and should be the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth not us, because it knew not him.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

1 Peter 2:24

Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give unto you: That you love one another, as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Hebrews 2:17

Wherefore it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

1 John 5:11

And this is the testimony, that God hath given to us eternal life. And this life is in his Son.