1 John 4:10

Weymouth NT

This is love indeed–we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Cross References

John 13:34

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

John 15:16

It is not you who chose me, but it is I who chose you and appointed you that you might go and be fruitful and that your fruit might remain; so that whatever petition you present to the Father in my name He may give you.

John 3:16

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

John 6:51

I am the living bread come down out of Heaven. If a man eats this bread, he shall live for ever. Moreover the bread which I will give is my flesh given for the life of the world.«

Hebrews 2:17

And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

1 Peter 2:24

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18

because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 2:2

and He is an 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 marvellous love the Father has bestowed upon us –that we should be called God's children: and that is what we are. For this reason the world does not recognize us– because it has not known Him.

1 John 4:19

We love because God first loved us.

1 John 5:11

And that testimony is to the effect that God has given us the Life of the Ages, and that this Life is in His Son.