Translations
This is what love truly is—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
This is love—not that we loved Elohim, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning cover for our sins.
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

