Verse 9

By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

Referenced Verses

  • John 3:16 : 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
  • 1 John 5:11 : 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
  • 1 John 4:10 : 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • John 6:57 : 57 Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
  • John 6:51 : 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
  • John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
  • John 1:14-18 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father. 15 John testified about him and shouted out,“This one was the one about whom I said,‘He who comes after me is greater than I am, because he existed before me.’” 16 For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
  • Ps 2:7 : 7 The king says,“I will announce the LORD’s decree. He said to me:‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!
  • John 3:18 : 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • John 5:23 : 23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus replied,“This is the deed God requires– to believe in the one whom he sent.”
  • Rom 5:8-9 : 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, because we have now been declared righteous by his blood, we will be saved through him from God’s wrath. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
  • Col 3:3-4 : 3 for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ(who is your life) appears, then you too will be revealed in glory with him.
  • Heb 1:5 : 5 The Son Is Superior to Angels For to which of the angels did God ever say,“You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? And in another place he says,“I will be his father and he will be my son.”
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
  • 1 John 4:16 : 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.
  • John 10:28-30 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.”
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus replied,“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
  • Mark 12:6 : 6 He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying,‘They will respect my son.’