1 John 4:9

New American Bible - revised edition

In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

Cross References

Genesis 22:2

Then God said: Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.

Psalm 2:7

I will proclaim the decree of the Lord, he said to me, “You are my son; today I have begotten you.

Mark 12:6

He had one other to send, a beloved son. He sent him to them last of all, thinking, ‘They will respect my son.’

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,

John 10:10

A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

John 3:18

Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

John 5:23

so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

John 6:29

Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in the one he sent.”

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

John 6:57

Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me.

John 8:29

The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.”

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and am here; I did not come on my own, but he sent me.

John 9:3

Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him?

Hebrews 1:5

For to which of the angels did God ever say: “You are my son; this day I have begotten you”? Or again: “I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me”?

1 John 3:16

The way we came to know love was that he laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 4:10

In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

1 John 4:16

We have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.

1 John 5:11

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

1 John 5:13

I write these things to you so that you may know that you have eternal life, you who believe in the name of the Son of God.