1 John 4:9

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.

Latin

In hoc apparuit caritas Dei in nobis, quoniam Filium suum unigenitum misit Deus in mundum, ut vivamus per eum.

Original

Greek

English

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.

Notes

1 John 4:9–10

Jesus Christ, whom God the Father sent, showed God’s love in his life on earth. He also showed this love in his sacrificial death on the cross, where he became the sacrifice that reconciles us to God.

1 John 4:7–21

John explains where a Christian’s love comes from and how it is shown in daily life.

Theme notes and profiles

Giving up Rights God’s Covenant Love Loving Others The Son of God

Related verses

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.
1 John 5:11
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
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.
John 6:57
Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.
John 11:25–26
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
John 10:28–30
I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”
1 John 3:16
By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
John 1:14–18
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 3:18
Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

Glossary

First Letter of John God, Being and Attributes of Incarnation Love Only Begotten Son of God

Topics

Christ is God: As the Only-Begotten Son of the Father God: Love of God: Saviour Jesus, the Christ: Divinity of The One and Only Son of the Father Jesus, the Christ: Relation of, to the Father Jesus, the Christ: Saviour Jesus, the Christ: Son of God Righteousness: Fruits of Salvation is of Love Spiritual Life: Christ is the Author of The Atonement: Exhibits The: Love of God The Love of God: Exhibited in The Sending of Christ Wicked (People): Love For

1 John 4:9

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