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OET (OET-RV) So this is real love, not us loving God, but God loving us and sending his son to be the sacrifice to clear us of the sentence from our sins.![]()
OET-LV In this is the love, not that we have_loved the god, but that he loved us, and sent_out the son of_him, an_atonement for the sins of_us.![]()
ULT In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son, as the propitiation for our sins.
UST I will tell you what loving someone really means. Our efforts to love God do not define what it means to love someone. No, God himself did that by loving us so much that he sent his Son to offer himself as a sacrifice in our place. When Jesus did that, God could forgive the sins of people who trust in Jesus instead of punishing them.
BSB [And] love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [as the] atoning sacrifice[fn] for our sins.
MSB [And] love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [as the] atoning sacrifice[fn] for our sins.
BLB In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins.
AICNT In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
OEB This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
WEBBE & WMBB In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice[fn] for our sins.
NET In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
LSV in this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son [as] the propitiation for our sins.
FBV This is love! It's not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and he sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
TCNT In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
T4T And God has shown us what it means to love another person: It does not mean that we loved God, but it means that God loved us and sent ◄his Son/the one who was also God► to sacrifice his life in order that our sins might be forgiven {he might forgive our sins}.
LEB In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation[fn] for our sins.
BBE 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.
Moff Love lies in this, not in our love for him but in his love for us — in the sending of his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Wymth This is love indeed—we did not love God, but He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
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.
DRA In this is charity: not as though we had loved God, but because he hath first loved us, and sent his Son to be a propitiation for our sins.
YLT 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.
Drby Herein is love, not that we loved [fn]God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
RV Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
SLT In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins.
Wbstr In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
KJB-1769 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
KJB-1611 Herein is loue, not that wee loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be ye propitiation for our sins.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
Bshps Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to be the agreement for our sinnes.
(Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to be the agreement for our sins.)
Gnva Herein is that loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his Sonne to be a reconciliation for our sinnes.
(Herein is that love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be a reconciliation for our sins.)
Cvdl Herein is loue, not that we loued God, but that he loued vs, and sent his sonne to make agremet for oure synnes.
(Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his son to make agremet for our sins.)
TNT Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved vs and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes.
(Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved us and sent his son to make agreement for our sins.)
Wycl In this thing is charite, not as we hadden loued God, but for he firste louede vs, and sente hise sone foryyuenesse for oure synnes.
(In this thing is charity, not as we had loved God, but for he first loved us, and sent his son forgiveness for our sins.)
Luth Darinnen stehet die Liebe, nicht daß wir GOtt geliebet haben, sondern daß er uns geliebet hat und gesandt seinen Sohn zur Versöhnung für unsere Sünden.
(Darinnen stands the love(n), not that we/us God loved have, rather that he us/to_us/ourselves loved has and sent his son to/for reconciliation for/in_favour_of our sins(n).)
ClVg In hoc est caritas: non quasi nos dilexerimus Deum, sed quoniam ipse prior dilexit nos, et misit Filium suum propitiationem pro peccatis nostris.[fn]
(In this it_is charity: not/no as_if us dilexerimus God, but since/because exactly_that/himself prior he_loved us, and he_sent Son his_own propitiation/appeasement for sins ours.)
SR-GNT Ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήκαμεν τὸν ˚Θεόν, ἀλλʼ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν Υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν. ‡
UGNT ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήκαμεν τὸν Θεόν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν Υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν.
SBL-GNT ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ⸀ἠγαπήκαμεν τὸν θεόν, ἀλλʼ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν.
RP-GNT Ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς ἠγαπήσαμεν τὸν θεόν, ἀλλ' ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν.
TC-GNT ἐν τούτῳ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀγάπη, οὐχ ὅτι ἡμεῖς [fn]ἠγαπήσαμεν τὸν Θεόν, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι αὐτὸς ἠγάπησεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἀπέστειλε τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἱλασμὸν περὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν.