Bible verse
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.
1 John 4:10 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 John 4.
6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. That is how we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of deception.
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 This 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.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we remain in Him, and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.
KJV
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
ASV
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
ERV
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
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