1 John 4:9

God's love was supremely displayed when he sent his only Son so that we could have life through him. Love is shown by costly self-giving for our good.

Cross-references · 24

• John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• 1 Jn 5:11The testimony is this, that God gave to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
• 1 Jn 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.
• John 10:28–30I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• John 6:51I am the living bread which came down out of heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. Yes, the bread which I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
• John 10:10The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
• 1 Jn 3:16By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• John 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
• John 1:14–18The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• Heb 1:5For to which of the angels did he say at any time, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father?” and again, “I will be to him a Father, and he will be to me a Son?”
• Rom 5:8–10But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
• John 14:6Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• John 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
• Mark 12:6Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
• John 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
• Col 3:3–4For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
• John 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.
• Ps 2:7I will tell of the decree. Yahweh said to me, “You are my son. Today I have become your father.

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