John 15:13

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.
  • 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.
  • John 10:15 : 15 As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, 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 propitiation 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 have I loved you; continue in my love.

    10If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in His love.

    11These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

    12This is my commandment: That you love one another, as I have loved you.

  • John 15:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

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

    15From now on I call you not servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

    16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He may give it to you.

    17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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

  • 1 John 3:16
    79%

    16By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

  • John 13:34-35
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    78%

    34A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

    35By this all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

  • John 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Therefore my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

    18No 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 10:11
    74%

    11I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

  • John 13:15
    73%

    15For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

  • Rom 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

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

  • John 12:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

    26If anyone serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there my servant will be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will honor him.

  • John 13:1
    72%

    1Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

  • John 10:15
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    15As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 14:15
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    15If you love me, keep my commandments.

  • John 3:15-16
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    15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  • Luke 12:4
    71%

    4And I say to you my friends, Do not be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do.

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

    9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, 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 propitiation for our sins.

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

  • John 11:36
    70%

    36Then the Jews said, Behold how he loved him!

  • John 14:28
    70%

    28You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you loved me, you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

  • John 13:37
    70%

    37Peter said to him, Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for your sake.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died for them and rose again.

  • 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
    2 verses
    70%

    24Then Jesus said to His disciples, If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

    25For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, no more can you, unless you abide in me.

    5I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, the same brings forth much fruit, for without me you can do nothing.

  • Prov 18:24
    69%

    24A man who has friends must show himself friendly, and 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%

    21He who has my commandments, and keeps them, he it is who loves me: and he 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 and said to him, If anyone loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.

  • John 12:33
    69%

    33This he said, signifying what death he would die.

  • John 11:5
    69%

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

  • John 21:19
    69%

    19He said this, signifying by what death he would glorify God. After he spoke this, he said to him, Follow me.

  • 1 John 3:14
    69%

    14We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brothers. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

  • John 14:31
    69%

    31But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

  • John 14:19
    69%

    19Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you will live also.

  • Luke 9:24
    68%

    24For whoever desires to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.

  • Mark 8:35
    68%

    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's, will save it.