1 John 4:10 BSB — MannaFest

1 John 4:10

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.

BSB

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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.

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Not that we loved God - And that he was thereby induced to give his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. No: we were enemies to God, and yet Christ died for our ungodly souls. (See Rom 5:6-11, and the notes there.) So it was God’s love, not our merit, that induced him to devise means that his banished might not be expelled from him.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Herein is love--love in the abstract: love, in its highest ideal, is herein. The love was all on God's side, none on ours. not that we loved God--though so altogether worthy of love. he loved us--though so altogether unworthy of love. The Greek aorist expresses, Not that we did any act of love at any time to God, but that He did the act of love to us in sending Christ.

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐν	en	In	G1722 →
τούτῳ	toutō	this	G3778 →
ἐστὶν	estin	is	G1510 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
ἀγάπη,	agapē	love,	G26 →
οὐχ	ouch	not	G3756 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
ἡμεῖς	hēmeis	we ourselves	G3165 →
ἠγαπήκαμεν	ēgapēkamen	have loved	G25 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
θεόν,	theon	God,	G2316 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
αὐτὸς	autos	He himself	G846 →
ἠγάπησεν	ēgapēsen	loved	G25 →
ἡμᾶς	hēmas	us	G3165 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀπέστειλεν	apesteilen	He sent	G649 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
υἱὸν	huion	Son	G5207 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of Him	G846 →
ἱλασμὸν	hilasmon	[as] a propitiation	G2434 →
περὶ	peri	for	G4012 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτιῶν	hamartiōn	sins	G266 →
ἡμῶν.¶	hēmōn	of us.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
leads to
- Jeremiah 1:5–7
  “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
- John 15:19
  If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 2 Timothy 3:15–17
  From infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Galatians 1:15
  But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by His grace, was pleased
Through
1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved us.
leads to
- 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.
- John 15:16
  You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.
Through
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.
leads to
- 1 John 4:14
  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

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Where the connections lead

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About 1 John