Bible verse
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.
1 John 4:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 John 4.
5 They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.
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.
KJV
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
ASV
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
ERV
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
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