1 John 4:10

Modern English Version

In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Cross References

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks have been determined for your people and upon your holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the 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 remain, that the Father may give you whatever you ask Him in My name.

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 6:51

I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore, in all things it was necessary for Him to be made like His brothers, so that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

1 John 2:2

He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 3:1

Consider how much love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. Therefore 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 testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.