John 10:18

American Standard Version (1901)

No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.

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  • John 10:17 : 17 Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
  • John 14:31 : 31 but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every [man] .
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come; In the roll of the book it is written of me: 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and [ made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Matt 26:53-56 : 53 Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be? 55 In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not. 56 But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
  • John 2:19-21 : 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
  • Heb 5:6-9 : 6 as he saith also in another [place], Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek. 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, [ 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered; 9 and having been made perfect, he became unto all them that obey him the author of eternal salvation;
  • Heb 10:6-9 : 6 In whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hadst no pleasure: 7 Then said I, Lo, I am come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God. 8 Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (the which are offered according to the law), 9 then hath he said, Lo, I am come to do thy will. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • John 18:5-6 : 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he] . And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When therefore he said unto them, I am [he], they went backward, and fell to the ground.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered him, Thou wouldest have no power against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath greater sin.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
  • Phil 2:6-8 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, counted not the being on an equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men; 8 and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, becoming obedient [even] unto death, yea, the death of the cross.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

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  • John 10:17
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    17Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

  • John 10:27-30
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    27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

    28and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

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  • John 10:15
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    15even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 10:19
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    19There arose a division again among the Jews because of these words.

  • John 12:49-50
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    49For I spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.

    50And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.

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    15All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he taketh of mine, and shall declare [it] unto you.

  • John 10:11
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    11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

  • John 8:28
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  • John 6:37-39
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    37All that which the Father giveth me shall come unto me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

    38For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

    39And this is the will of him that sent me, that of all that which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.

  • John 18:11
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    11Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

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    31but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

    13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

  • John 17:6-8
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    6I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.

    7Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee:

    8for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.

  • John 16:27-28
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    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

    28I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.

  • John 17:2
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    2even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.

  • John 5:30
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    30I can of myself do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

  • John 19:10-11
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  • John 18:8-9
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    35The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

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    27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

    28Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

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    65And he said, For this cause have I said unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it be given unto him of the Father.

  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .

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    10and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them.

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    39They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand.

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    18I am he that beareth witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.

  • John 5:26-27
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    26For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:

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    19Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.

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    36But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.

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    10Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father abiding in me doeth his works.

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