10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.


In Context

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for 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 showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

11 Dear friends, since 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 lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1st John 4:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:10In 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:10in 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.