1 John 4:10

American Standard Version (1901)

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήσαμεν τὸν Θεόν, ἀλλʼ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν Υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν.

Transliteration

In toutō estin the agapē, not that hēmeis ēgapēsamen the Theon, but that autos ēgapēsen us, and apesteilen the Huion of him hilasmon concerning the hamartiōn of us.

Grammar Details

• *toutō*: dative, neuter, singular - this/in this
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *agapē*: nominative, feminine, singular - love
• *hēmeis*: nominative, plural - we
• *ēgapēsamen*: aorist active indicative, 1st plural - we loved
• *Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *autos*: nominative, masculine, singular - he/himself
• *ēgapēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - he loved
• *apesteilen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - he sent
• *Huion*: accusative, masculine, singular - Son
• *hilasmon*: accusative, masculine, singular - propitiation/atonement
• *hamartiōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - of sins

Word Meanings

• *agapē*: love/divine love/selfless love
• *ēgapēsamen*: we loved/we showed love
• *ēgapēsen*: he loved/he showed love
• *apesteilen*: he sent/he dispatched/he commissioned
• *hilasmon*: propitiation/atonement/means of forgiveness
• *hamartiōn*: sins/failures/misses of the mark

Referenced Verses

• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, shall we be saved from the wrath [of God] through him. 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life;
• John 15:16 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love, because he first loved us.
• 1 John 4:8-9 : 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God; 26 for the showing, [I say], of his righteousness at this present season: that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him that hath faith in Jesus.
• Deut 7:7-8 : 7 Jehovah did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: 30 and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
• 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech [you] on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God. 21 Him who knew no sin he made [to be] sin on our behalf; that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
• Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared, 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.