1 John 4:10
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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Study Note
The definition of love offered in 1 John 4:10 — 'not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins' — inverts the natural assumption that love's direction is human to divine and grounds the entire ethic of love in divine initiative. The aorist 'he loved us' (ēgapēsen hēmas) points to the historical event of the cross as the defining instance of that love, connecting the theological statement directly to salvific history. The structure of verse 10 directly parallels Romans 5:8 ('God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us'), indicating shared early Christian theological grammar. The practical consequence — 'if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another' (verse 11) — makes the horizontal love ethic a participation in and extension of the vertical love received.
Otras traducciones
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
in 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.
And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
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