1 John 4:10

Tree of Life Version

This is love—not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atonement for our sins.

Cross References

Daniel 9:24

“Seventy weeks are decreed concerning your people and your holy city, to put an end to transgression to bring sin to an end, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Holy of Holies.

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so also you must love one another.

John 15:16

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I selected you so that you would go and produce fruit, and your fruit would remain. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in My name.

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.

John 6:51

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

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore He had to be made like His brothers in all things, so He might become a merciful and faithful Kohen Gadol in matters 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, so that we, removed from sins, might live for righteousness. “By His wounds you were healed.”

1 Peter 3:18

For Messiah once suffered for sins also—the righteous for the unrighteous—in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Ruach.

1 John 2:2

He is the atonement for our sins, and not only for our sins but also for the whole world.

1 John 3:1

See how glorious a love the Father has given us, that we should be called God’s children—and so we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.

1 John 4:19

We love, because He first loved us.

1 John 5:11

And the testimony is this—that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.