John 10:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it downe of my selfe: I haue power to lay it downe, and haue power to take it againe: this commandement haue I receiued of my Father.

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  • John 10:17 : 17 Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.
  • John 14:31 : 31 But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If ye shall keepe my commandements, ye shall abide in my loue, as I haue kept my Fathers commandements, and abide in his loue.
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 But we see Iesus crowned with glory and honour, which was made litle inferiour to the Angels, through the suffering of death, that by Gods grace he might taste death for all men.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I came downe from heauen, not to do mine owne wil, but his wil which hath sent me.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice & offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required. 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: for in the rolle of the booke it is written of me, 8 I desired to doe thy good will, O my God: yea, thy Lawe is within mine heart.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet the Lord would breake him, and make him subiect to infirmities: when hee shall make his soule an offring for sinne, he shall see his seede and shall prolong his dayes, and the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 Hee shall see of the trauaile of his soule, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous seruant iustifie many: for hee shall beare their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I giue him a portion with the great, and he shall deuide the spoyle with the strong, because hee hath powred out his soule vnto death: and he was counted with the transgressers, & he bare the sinne of many, and prayed for the trespassers.
  • Matt 26:53-56 : 53 Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels? 54 Howe then shoulde the Scriptures bee fulfilled, which say, that it must be so? 55 The same houre sayde Iesus to the multitude, Ye be come out as it were against a thiefe, with swordes and staues to take mee: I sate daily teaching in the Temple among you, and yee tooke me not. 56 But all this was done, that the Scriptures of the Prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsooke him, and fled.
  • John 2:19-21 : 19 Iesus answered, and said vnto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three daies I will raise it vp againe. 20 Then said the Iewes, Fourtie & sixe yeeres was this Temple a building, and wilt thou reare it vp in three daies? 21 But he spake of the temple of his bodie.
  • Heb 5:6-9 : 6 As he also in another place speaketh, Thou art a Priest for euer, after ye order of Melchi-sedec. 7 Who in the dayes of his flesh did offer vp prayers and supplications, with strong crying and teares vnto him, that was able to saue him from death, and was also heard in that which he feared. 8 And though he were ye Sonne, yet learned he obedience, by the things which he suffered. 9 And being consecrate, was made the authour of eternall saluation vnto all them that obey him:
  • Heb 10:6-9 : 6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then I sayd, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe) 9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second. 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.
  • John 10:11 : 11 I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.
  • John 10:15 : 15 As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.
  • Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himselfe likewise tooke part with them, that hee might destroye through death, him that had the power of death, that is the deuil, 15 And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.
  • John 18:5-6 : 5 They answered him, Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vnto them, I am hee. Nowe Iudas also which betraied him, stoode with them. 6 Assoone then as hee had saide vnto them, I am hee, they went away backewardes, and fell to the grounde.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Iesus answered, Thou couldest haue no power at all against me, except it were giuen thee from aboue: therefore he that deliuered me vnto thee, hath the greater sinne.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 Whome God hath raised vp, and loosed the sorrowes of death, because it was vnpossible that he should be holden of it.
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Iesus hath God raised vp, whereof we all are witnesses.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 And killed the Lorde of life, whome God hath raised fro the dead, whereof we are witnesses.
  • Phil 2:6-8 : 6 Who being in ye forme of God, thought it no robberie to be equall with God: 7 But he made himself of no reputation, & tooke on him ye forme of a seruant, & was made like vnto men, and was founde in shape as a man. 8 He humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen the death of the Crosse.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gaue him selfe for vs, that hee might redeeme vs from all iniquitie, and purge vs to bee a peculiar people vnto himselfe, zealous of good woorkes.

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  • John 10:17
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    17Therefore doeth my Father loue me, because I lay downe my life, that I might take it againe.

  • John 10:27-30
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    27My sheepe heare my voyce, and I knowe them, and they follow me,

    28And I giue vnto them eternall life, & they shall neuer perish, neither shall any plucke them out of mine hand.

    29My Father which gaue them me, is greater then all, and none is able to take them out of my Fathers hand.

    30I and my Father are one.

  • John 10:15
    76%

    15As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay downe my life for my sheepe.

  • John 10:19
    73%

    19Then there was a dissension againe among the Iewes for these sayings,

  • John 12:49-50
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    49For I haue not spoken of my selfe: but the Father which sent me, hee gaue me a commaundement what I should say, and what I should speake.

    50And I knowe that his commaundement is life euerlasting: the thinges therefore that I speake, I speake them so as the Father sayde vnto me.

  • John 16:15
    73%

    15All thinges that the Father hath, are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shewe it vnto you.

  • John 10:11
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    11I am that good shepheard: that good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe.

  • John 8:28
    72%

    28Then said Iesus vnto them, When ye haue lift vp the Sonne of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I doe nothing of my selfe, but as my Father hath taught me, so I speake these things.

  • John 6:37-39
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    37All that the Father giueth me, shall come to mee: and him that commeth to me, I cast not away.

    38For I came downe from heauen, not to do mine owne wil, but his wil which hath sent me.

    39And this is the Fathers will which hath sent mee, that of all which hee hath giuen mee, I should lose nothing, but shoulde raise it vp againe at the last day.

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    11Then sayde Iesus vnto Peter, Put vp thy sworde into the sheath: shall I not drinke of the cuppe which my Father hath giuen me?

  • John 14:31
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    31But it is that the world may knowe that I loue my Father: and as the Father hath commanded me, so I doe. Arise, let vs goe hence.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12This is my commandement, that ye loue one another, as I haue loued you.

    13Greater loue then this hath no man, when any man bestoweth his life for his friendes.

  • John 17:6-8
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    6I haue declared thy Name vnto the men which thou gauest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gauest them me, and they haue kept thy worde.

    7Nowe they knowe that all things whatsoeuer thou hast giuen me, are of thee.

    8For I haue giuen vnto them the wordes which thou gauest me, and they haue receiued them, and haue knowen surely that I came out from thee, & haue beleeued that thou hast sent me.

  • John 16:27-28
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    27For the Father himselfe loueth you, because ye haue loued me, and haue beleeued that I came out from God.

    28I am come out from the Father, and came into the worlde: againe I leaue the worlde, and goe to the Father.

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    2As thou hast giuen him power ouer all flesh, that he shoulde giue eternall life to all them that thou hast giuen him.

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    30I can doe nothing of mine owne selfe: as I heare, I iudge: and my iudgement is iust, because I seeke not mine owne will, but the will of the Father who hath sent me.

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    10Then saide Pilate vnto him, Speakest thou not vnto me? Knowest thou not that I haue power to crucifie thee, & haue power to loose thee?

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    20These wordes spake Iesus in the treasurie, as hee taught in the Temple, and no man layde handes on him: for his houre was not yet come.

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    3Iesus knowing that the Father had giuen all things into his hands, and that he was come forth from God, and went to God,

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    2 verses
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    8Iesus answered, I said vnto you, that I am he: therefore if ye seeke me, let these go their way.

    9This was that the worde might be fulfilled which hee spake, Of them which thou gauest me, haue I lost none.

  • John 3:35
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    35The Father loueth the Sonne, and hath giuen all things into his hande.

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    27All things are giuen vnto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Sonne, but ye Father: neither knoweth any man ye Father, but the Sonne, and he to whom ye Sonne will reueile him.

  • John 14:27-28
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    27Peace I leaue with you: my peace I giue vnto you: not as the worlde giueth, giue I vnto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor feare.

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  • John 6:65
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    65And hee saide, Therefore saide I vnto you, that no man can come vnto mee, except it be giuen vnto him of my Father.

  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things are giuen me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Sonne is, but the Father: neither who the Father is, saue the Sonne, and he to whom the Sonne will reueile him.

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    10And al mine are thine, and thine are mine, and I am glorified in them.

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    39Againe they went about to take him: but he escaped out of their handes,

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    18I am one that beare witnes of my selfe, and the Father that sent me, beareth witnes of me.

  • John 5:26-27
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    26For as the Father hath life in himselfe, so likewise hath he giuen to the Sonne to haue life in himselfe,

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  • John 5:19
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    19Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.

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    36But I haue greater witnesse then the witnesse of Iohn: for the workes which the Father hath giuen me to finish, the same workes that I doe, beare witnesse of me, that the Father sent me.

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    10Beleeuest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you, I speake not of my selfe: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the workes.

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    36Say ye of him, whome the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the worlde, Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Sonne of God?

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