1 John 4:10

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for [the sins of] the whole world.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 ¶ Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
• John 15:16 : 16 ‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 ¶ For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1 John 4:8-9 : 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 Whom God hath set forth [to be] a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; 26 To declare, [I say], at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
• Deut 7:7-8 : 7 The LORD 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 people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the 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 in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›
• Rom 8:29-30 : 29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, 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 imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech [you] by us: we pray [you] in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
• Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another. 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.