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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice“atoning sacrifice” is from the Greek “ιλασμος”, an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation—the sacrifice that turns away God’s wrath because of our sin. for our sins.”
— WEB
“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.”
— ASV
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.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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