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Selected Verse: 1 John 4:10 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 1Jo 4:10 |
King James |
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Herein is love - In this great gift is the highest expression of love, as if it had done all that it can do.
Not that we loved God - Not that we were in such a state that we might suppose he would make such a sacrifice for us, but just the opposite. If we had loved and obeyed him, we might have had reason to believe that he would be willing to show his love to us in a corresponding manner. But we were alienated from him. We had even no desire for his friendship and favor. In This state he showed the greatness of his love for us by giving his Son to die for his enemies. See the notes at Rom 5:7-8.
But that he loved us - Not that he approved our character, but that he desired our welfare. Hc loved us not with the love of complacency, but with the love of benevolence.
And sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins - On the meaning of the word "propitiation," see the notes at Rom 3:25. Compare the notes at Jo1 2:2. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
propitiation
(Greek, "hilasmos").
(See Scofield) - (Jo1 2:2). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Propitiation
See on Jo1 2:2. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Not that we loved God - And that he was thereby induced to give his Son to be a propitiation for our sins. No: we were enemies to God, and yet Christ died for our ungodly souls. (See Rom 5:6-11, and the notes there.) So it was God's love, not our merit, that induced him to devise means that his banished might not be expelled from him. |
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.