I dette er kjærligheten: ikke at vi har elsket Gud, men at han har elsket oss og sendt sin Sønn som en soning for våre synder.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.