A moment in scripture
1 John 4:10
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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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The surrounding passage
- 1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
- 1 John 4:9
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.
- 1 John 4:11
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
- 1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.