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1 John 4:9

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7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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.

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.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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BSB
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.
KJV
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.
WEB
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his only born Son into the world that we might live through him.
ASV
Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
DARBY
Herein as to us has been manifested the love of God, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
BLB
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.
ÅB
Ved dette er Guds kjærlighet åpenbart iblant oss at Gud har sendt sin Sønn, den enbårne, til verden, for at vi skal leve ved ham.
OTB
Slik ble Guds kjærlighet åpenbart blant oss: Gud sendte sin enbårne Sønn til verden for at vi skulle leve ved Ham.
B1930
Ved dette er Guds kjærlighet åpenbaret iblandt oss at Gud har sendt sin Sønn, den enbårne, til verden, forat vi skal leve ved ham.

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  • 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.

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  • 1 John 5:11

    And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.”

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  • 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.

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