1 John 4:9

New International Version

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

Cross References

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 5:11

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

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

John 6:57

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

1 John 4:10

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 3:16

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

John 10:10

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

John 6:51

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

John 3:18

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Hebrews 1:5

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,

Mark 12:6

“He had one left to send, a son, whom he loved. He sent him last of all, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

1 John 4:16

And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

John 14:6

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

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John 8:29

The one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.”

John 5:23

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.

Psalm 2:7

I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father.

Genesis 22:2

Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

John 9:3

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

1 John 5:13

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