1 John 4:10

James Moffatt - New Testament

Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Cross References

1 John 2:2

he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world.

1 John 4:19

We love, because He loved us first.

John 15:16

You have not chosen me, it is I who have chosen you, appointing you to go and bear fruit — fruit that lasts, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask in my name.

John 3:16

For God loved the world so dearly that he gave up his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life, instead of perishing.

1 John 3:1

'Born of him!' Think what a love the Father has for us, in letting us be called 'children of God!' That is what we are. The world does not recognize us? That is simply because it did not recognize him.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:24

he bore our sins in his own body on the gibbet, that we might break with sin and live for righteousness; and by his wounds you have been healed.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which has come down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and more, the bread I will give is my flesh, given for the life of the world."

John 13:34

I give you a new command, to love one another — as I have loved you, you are to love one another.

Hebrews 2:17

He had to resemble his brothers in every respect, in order to prove a merciful and faithful high priest in things divine, to expiate the sins of the People.

1 John 5:11

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