1 John 4:9

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • 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.
  • 1 John 5:11 : 11 The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 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.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."
  • John 8:42 : 42 Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven't come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  • John 1:14-18 : 14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'" 16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
  • Ps 2:7 : 7 I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, "You are my son. Today I have become your father.
  • John 3:18 : 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn't honor the Son doesn't honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent."
  • 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 8:29 : 29 He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn't left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."
  • Col 3:3-4 : 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
  • Heb 1:5 : 5 For to which of the angels did he say at any time, "You are my Son. Today have I become your father?" and again, "I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?"
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
  • John 10:28-30 : 28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one."
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies. 26 Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
  • Mark 12:6 : 6 Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

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    13By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

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

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    17In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

    18There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

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