1 John 4:10

New English Translation

In this is love: not that we have 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 concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

John 3:16

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

John 6:51

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

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

1 John 2:2

and he himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

1 John 3:1

(See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be called God’s children – and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.

1 John 4:19

We love because he loved us first.

1 John 5:11

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