But God proves(A) His own love for us(B) in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

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30 Now I appeal to you, brothers, through our Lord Jesus Christ and through the love of the Spirit,(A) to join with me in fervent prayers to God on my behalf.(B)

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16 May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved(A) us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope by grace,

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Love in Action

16 This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life(A) for us.(B) We should also lay down our lives for our brothers.(C)

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God’s love was revealed among us in this way:[a] God sent(A) His One and Only Son(B) into the world so that we might live(C) through Him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us(D) and sent His Son to be the[b] propitiation(E) for our sins.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 John 4:9 Or revealed in us
  2. 1 John 4:10 Or a

16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

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