1 John 4:10

World English Bible (2000)

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice 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 with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.
• Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God commends 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, we will be saved from God's wrath through him. 10 For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
• John 15:16 : 16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him, because he first loved us.
• 1 John 4:8-9 : 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. 9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Rom 3:25-26 : 25 whom God set forth to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God's forbearance; 26 to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
• Deut 7:7-8 : 7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples: 8 but because Yahweh loves you, and because he would keep the oath which he swore to your fathers, has Yahweh 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 on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• Rom 8:29-30 : 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
• Titus 3:3-5 : 3 For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.