Propitiation for Our Sins — 1 John 4:9-10

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. — John does not define love as sentiment. He defines it by a single historical act — and then insists that act is the source of every other love we claim.