1 John 4:10

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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.

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  • Eph 2:4-5 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, 5 made us alive together with Christ, even when we were dead in our transgressions—by grace you have been saved.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • 1 John 3:1 : 1 See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.
  • Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, since we have now been justified by His blood, we shall 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, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
  • John 15:16 : 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was 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 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
  • Rom 3:25-26 : 25 God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed. 26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
  • Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The LORD did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
  • Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
  • John 3:16 : 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.
  • 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness. By His wounds, you have been healed.

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    7Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

    8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

  • Rom 5:8-11
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    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    9Much more then, since we have now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.

    10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

    11Not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

  • 1 John 4:11-14
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    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

    12No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

    13By this, we know that we remain in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.

    14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

  • 1 John 4:16-21
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    16And we have come to know and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in them.

    17In this, love has been made complete with us, so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment, because as He is, so also are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been made perfect in love.

    19We love because He first loved us.

    20If anyone says, 'I love God,' but hates their brother or sister, they are a liar. For the one who does not love their brother or sister whom they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen.

    21And this commandment we have from Him: Whoever loves God must also love their brother or sister.

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    1My dear children, I am writing these things to you so that you will not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate before the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

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    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

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    4But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,

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    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

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    4But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

  • Rom 3:24-25
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    24And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

    25God presented Him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in His blood, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins previously committed.

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

  • 1 John 5:2-3
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    2This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and keeping His commandments.

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    14in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

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    8If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.

    9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

    10If we claim we have not sinned, we make Him out to be a liar, and His word is not in us.

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    6For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

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    18Little children, let us not love with words or tongue, but with actions and in truth.

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    5You know that He appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

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    11And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

  • 2 Cor 5:19
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    19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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    10By this the children of God and the children of the devil are distinguished: Anyone who does not practice righteousness and does not love their brother or sister is not of God.

    11For this is the message you have heard from the beginning: that we should love one another.

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    6to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the Beloved.

  • 1 John 3:23
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    13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

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    21God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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    5to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

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    4just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence in love.

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    9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    2And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.