1 John 4:19 directly echoes this: our love is a response to His initiating love, not the cause.

1 John 4:9 shows God sent his Son to give life—complementing the main verse's emphasis on propitiation, both revealing God's love.

1 John 4:8 declares God is love—the foundation for the main verse's definition of love as God's initiative in sending his Son.

1 John 4:16 builds on 4:10 by declaring 'God is love' and calling us to abide in that love — a theological development.

1 John 4:14 testifies that the Father sent the Son as Savior — restating the sending and its purpose in the immediate context.

1 John 3:1 adds that God's love makes us His children — the same initiating love that sent His Son.

1 John 2:2 identifies Jesus as the propitiation for our sins and extends it to the whole world, expanding the scope of atonement.

1 John 3:16 defines love as Christ laying down his life for us — directly paralleling the propitiation in 1 John 4:10.

1 John 5:6 emphasizes Jesus' coming by water and blood — the blood points to the propitiatory sacrifice described in 1 John 4:10.

1 Peter 2:24 says Christ bore our sins in His body on the tree, providing healing — a vivid picture of substitutionary atonement.

Ephesians 2:4-5 adds that God's love makes us alive with Christ even when dead in sins — same initiating mercy.

Ephesians 2:5 shows the same initiating love: while dead in sins, God made us alive with Christ, echoing 1 John's 'he loved us first'.

2 Corinthians 5:19-21 adds reconciliation and imputation: God not counting sins, making Christ sin for us.

Titus 3:3-5 describes our former sinful state and God's mercy saving us, not by works — reinforcing that love originates from God.

Romans 5:8-10 adds Christ's death for sinners demonstrates God's love and reconciles us while enemies.

Romans 3:26 explains that the propitiation demonstrates God's righteousness, making Him just while justifying believers — a key nuance.

Romans 3:25 uses the same 'propitiation' term, describing Christ as the atoning sacrifice God put forward to be received by faith.

John 15:16 adds divine initiative in choosing us — parallel to God loving us first before we loved Him.

1 Peter 3:18 states Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring us to God — echoing the purpose of propitiation.

Deuteronomy 7:8 adds God's love is covenant-based and leads to redemption — echoing sending His Son.

Deuteronomy 7:7 shows God's love is not based on our size or merit — same unconditional initiating love.

Hebrews 2:9 says Christ tasted death for everyone — echoing the atoning death for sins in 1 John 4:10.

Galatians 3:13 explains Christ becoming a curse to redeem us, complementing the propitiation here — both about substitutionary atonement.

1 Timothy 2:6 says Christ gave himself as a ransom for all — parallel to the propitiatory sacrifice in 1 John 4:10.

1 Timothy 1:15 states Christ came to save sinners — directly pointing to the purpose of the Son's sending as propitiation.

2 Thessalonians 2:16 describes God who loved us and gave comfort and hope, echoing the love and gift theme here.

Colossians 1:20 describes reconciliation and peace through Christ's blood, the outcome of the propitiation here.

Revelation 1:5 shows Jesus loving and freeing us from sins by his blood—directly paralleling the propitiation and love of God.

In John 1:29, Jesus is the Lamb who takes away sin — this directly matches the propitiation that 1 John 4:10 says God sent his Son to be.

Leviticus 4:31 describes the sin offering making atonement and forgiveness, the very type Christ fulfills as propitiation.

Leviticus 4:35 similarly details the sin offering's atonement and forgiveness, prefiguring Christ's propitiatory sacrifice.

Leviticus 23:28 refers to the Day of Atonement, the annual atonement ritual, which Christ's propitiation fulfills once for all.

Isaiah 9:6 prophesies the giving of a Son, fulfilled in God sending his Son as propitiation in 1 John 4:10.

Isaiah 53:10 describes the servant making a guilt offering for sin, the very propitiatory sacrifice Christ accomplishes.

Isaiah 63:9 depicts God's love and redemption of Israel, a type of the greater redemption through Christ's propitiation.

In Zechariah 13:7, the shepherd is struck by God's sword — this prefigures the sending of the Son as the propitiatory sacrifice.

In Luke 1:78, God's tender mercy sends the sunrise from on high — this is the coming of Christ, whom 1 John 4:10 shows sent as propitiation.

Ephesians 1:7 speaks of redemption through Christ's blood and forgiveness, the effect of the propitiation mentioned here.

John 3:16 similarly declares God's love demonstrated by giving His Son, reinforcing the message of propitiation.

Romans 4:25 declares Christ was delivered for our sins, directly mirroring the propitiation mentioned here.

Romans 8:32 echoes the same truth: God delivered His Son for us all, reinforcing the sacrificial love.

2 Corinthians 5:18 echoes that God initiated reconciliation through Christ, adding the ministry of reconciliation.

Galatians 2:20 echoes that Christ loved and gave Himself for us, adding personal faith and identification with His crucifixion.

Genesis 22:2 presents Abraham's beloved son Isaac as a burnt offering, prefiguring God giving His only Son as propitiation.

Galatians 4:4 also describes God sending His Son, adding the incarnation and timing — a direct parallel.

John 8:42 highlights Jesus' divine origin and being sent by the Father, complementing the sending aspect here.

In Mark 9:7, God declares Jesus as his beloved Son — this affirms the identity of the Son whom God sends in love in 1 John 4:10.

1 Peter 1:20 reveals Christ was foreknown and manifested for us — adding preexistence context to the sending in 1 John 4:10.