John 15:13

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Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

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  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial offering to God, a pleasing aroma.
  • John 10:15 : 15 Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one might dare even to die. 8 But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    9As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Now remain in my love.

    10If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

    11I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

  • John 15:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14You are my friends if you do what I command.

    15I no longer call you servants because a servant does not know what his master is doing. Instead, I have called you friends because everything I heard from my Father I have made known to you.

    16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he will give you.

    17This is my command: Love one another.

    18If the world hates you, know that it hated me before it hated you.

  • 1 John 3:16
    79%

    16This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    78%

    34'I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another.'

    35'By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.'

  • John 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

    18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have the authority to lay it down and the authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

  • John 10:11
    74%

    11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  • John 13:15
    73%

    15For I have given you an example, so that you also should do just as I have done for you.

  • Rom 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one might dare even to die.

    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • John 12:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25The one who loves his life will lose it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

    26If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. And where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.

  • John 13:1
    72%

    1Now, before the Passover festival, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, loved them to the very end.

  • John 10:15
    72%

    15Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 14:15
    72%

    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 3:15-16
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    71%

    15so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • Luke 12:4
    71%

    4I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body but can do nothing more afterward.

  • 1 John 4:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • John 11:36
    70%

    36Then the Jews said, 'See how he loved him!'

  • John 14:28
    70%

    28You heard me say to you, 'I am going away, and I will come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 13:37
    70%

    37'Lord,' Peter asked, 'why can't I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You!'

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    70%

    15And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.

  • John 16:27
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    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

  • Matt 16:24-25
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    24Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me.

    25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Remain in me, as I also remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

    5I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

  • Prov 18:24
    69%

    24A person with unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • Acts 15:26
    69%

    26men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • John 14:21
    69%

    21The one who has my commandments and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.

  • John 14:23
    69%

    23Jesus answered, 'If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.'

  • John 12:33
    69%

    33He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

  • John 11:5
    69%

    5Now Jesus loved Martha, her sister, and Lazarus.

  • John 21:19
    69%

    19Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, 'Follow me.'

  • 1 John 3:14
    69%

    14We know that we have passed from death to life because we love our brothers and sisters. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • John 14:31
    69%

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • John 14:19
    69%

    19In a little while, the world will see me no longer, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live.

  • Luke 9:24
    68%

    24'For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for my sake will save it.'

  • Mark 8:35
    68%

    35For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.