Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. New Living Translation This is real love—not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. English Standard Version In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Berean Standard Bible And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Berean Literal Bible In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins. King James Bible Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. New King James Version In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. New American Standard Bible In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. NASB 1995 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. NASB 1977 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Legacy Standard Bible In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Amplified Bible In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation [that is, the atoning sacrifice, and the satisfying offering] for our sins [fulfilling God’s requirement for justice against sin and placating His wrath]. Christian Standard Bible Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Holman Christian Standard Bible Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. American Standard Version Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Contemporary English Version Real love isn't our love for God, but his love for us. God sent his Son to be the sacrifice by which our sins are forgiven. English Revised Version Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the payment for our sins. Good News Translation This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven. International Standard Version 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. Majority Standard Bible And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. NET Bible 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. New Heart English Bible In this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Webster's Bible Translation In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Weymouth New Testament This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. World English Bible 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard Versionin this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins. Berean Literal Bible In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins. Young's Literal Translation in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. Smith's Literal Translation In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIn this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. Catholic Public Domain Version In this is love: not as if we had loved God, but that he first loved us, and so he sent his Son as a propitiation for our sins. New American Bible In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins. New Revised Standard Version 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. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleHerein is love, not that we loved God, but that God loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Aramaic Bible in Plain English In this is love: it was not that we loved God, but he has loved us, and he sent us his Son, the atonement for the sake of our sins. NT Translations Anderson New TestamentIn this is love; not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Godbey New Testament In him is divine love, not because we loved God with divine love, but because he loved us with divine love, and sent his Son an expiation for our sins. Haweis New Testament Herein is love, not that we have loved God, but that he hath loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiatory sacrifice for our sins. Mace New Testament and what heightens his love, was this, that it was not we who first loved God, but it was he that first loved us, and sent his son to expiate our sins. Weymouth New Testament This is love indeed--we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Worrell New Testament Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son, to be a propitiation for our sins. Worsley New Testament Herein is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Love Comes from God…9This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10 And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.… Cross References John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 1 John 2:2 He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Ephesians 2:4-5 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, / made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved! Romans 3:25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand. 2 Corinthians 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting men’s trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the message of reconciliation. Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Hebrews 9:26 Otherwise, Christ would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But now He has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of Himself. Isaiah 53:4-5 Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. / But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:10 Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand. Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” 1 Peter 2:24 He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.” 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit, John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Treasury of Scripture Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Herein. 1 John 4:8,9 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love… 1 John 3:1 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. not. 1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us. Deuteronomy 7:7,8 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: … John 15:16 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. and sent. 1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. Daniel 9:24 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. Romans 3:25,26 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; … Jump to Previous Atoning Expiation Herein Indeed Love Offering Propitiation Sacrifice SinsJump to Next Atoning Expiation Herein Indeed Love Offering Propitiation Sacrifice Sins1 John 4 1. He warns them not to believe all who boast of the Spirit;7. and exhorts to brotherly love. And this is love The phrase begins with a definitive statement about the nature of true love. In Greek, the word for love here is "agape," which signifies a selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love. This sets the stage for understanding love not as a human emotion or action, but as a divine attribute and initiative. In the historical context of the early church, this was a radical departure from the prevailing cultural norms, which often viewed love as transactional or self-serving. not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins Parallel Commentaries ... Greek [And] loveἀγάπη (agapē) Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. consists ἐστὶν (estin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist. in ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. this: τούτῳ (toutō) Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Neuter Singular Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. not οὐχ (ouch) Adverb Strong's 3756: No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not. that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. we ἡμεῖς (hēmeis) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. loved ἠγαπήκαμεν (ēgapēkamen) Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. God, Θεόν (Theon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. but ἀλλ’ (all’) Conjunction Strong's 235: But, except, however. Neuter plural of allos; properly, other things, i.e. contrariwise. that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. He αὐτὸς (autos) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. loved ἠγάπησεν (ēgapēsen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. us ἡμᾶς (hēmas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. sent ἀπέστειλεν (apesteilen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 649: From apo and stello; set apart, i.e. to send out literally or figuratively. His αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. Son Υἱὸν (Huion) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 5207: A son, descendent. Apparently a primary word; a 'son', used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship. [as an] atoning sacrifice ἱλασμὸν (hilasmon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular Strong's 2434: A propitiation (of an angry god), atoning sacrifice. Atonement, i.e. an expiator. for περὶ (peri) Preposition Strong's 4012: From the base of peran; properly, through, i.e. Around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time. our ἡμῶν (hēmōn) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. sins. ἁμαρτιῶν (hamartiōn) Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. 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