9 God’s love was revealed among us  * in this way: God sent  * his one and only Son  * into the world so that we might live  * through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us  * and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice  *,* for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another.  *