John 3:16
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16 For 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.
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John 3:16
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16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten ([a]unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
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- John 3:16 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary.
1 John 3:16
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16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
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1 John 3:16
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16 By this we come to know (progressively to recognize, to perceive, to understand) the [essential] love: that He laid down His [own] life for us; and we ought to lay [our] lives down for [those who are our] brothers [[a]in Him].
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- 1 John 3:16 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
1 John 4:9-10
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9 By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice[a] for our sins.
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- 4:10 “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.
1 John 4:9-10
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9 In this the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten or [a]unique [Son], into the world so that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
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- 1 John 4:9 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary of the Greek Testament.
Romans 5:8
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8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
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Romans 5:8
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8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
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