1 John 4:10

The Text-Critical English New Testament

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

John 13:34

I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you must 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 abide, so that whatever you ask of the Father in my name he will give you.

John 3:16

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

John 6:51

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

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he had to become like his brothers in every way, so that he could be a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, so that we might die to our sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, so that he might bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in 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

See what great love the Father has lavished upon us, that we should be called children of God! The reason the world does not know you is that 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.