NEW TESTAMENT

1 John 4:10

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In this is love, 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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“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.

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