John 10:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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  • Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered to me by my Father: and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and those to whom the Son will reveal him.
  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
  • John 15:13 : 13 Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 And walk in love, as Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 Even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
  • Isa 53:10 : 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit;
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • Zech 13:7 : 7 Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man who is my fellow, says the LORD of hosts: strike the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn my hand upon the little ones.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • Isa 53:4-6 : 4 Surely he has borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we considered him stricken, struck by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement for our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
  • Isa 53:8 : 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living: for the transgression of my people he was stricken.
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
  • 1 Tim 2:5-6 : 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  • Gal 1:4 : 4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
  • John 10:17-18 : 17 Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No one takes it 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 I have received from my Father.
  • John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world has not known you: but I have known you, and these have known that you have sent me.
  • Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree.'
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a special people, zealous for good works.
  • John 6:46 : 46 Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God, he has seen the Father.
  • John 8:55 : 55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his word.
  • Luke 10:21 : 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit and said, I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and revealed them to babes: even so, Father, for so it seemed good in your sight.
  • Dan 9:26 : 26 And after sixty-two weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; its end shall be with a flood, and until the end of the war desolations are determined.
  • Rev 5:2-9 : 2 And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book and to break its seals? 3 And no one in heaven, or on earth, or under the earth, was able to open the book or to look at it. 4 And I wept greatly because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book, or to look at it. 5 And one of the elders said to me, Weep not; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book and to break its seven seals. 6 And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth. 7 Then He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him who sat on the throne. 8 And when He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 And they sang a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals, for You were slain and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

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