John 10:17

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 10:11 : 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.
  • John 10:18 : 18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”
  • Isa 53:7-9 : 7 He was treated harshly and afflicted, but he did not even open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughtering block, like a sheep silent before her shearers, he did not even open his mouth. 8 He was led away after an unjust trial– but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded. 9 They intended to bury him with criminals, but he ended up in a rich man’s tomb, because he had committed no violent deeds, nor had he spoken deceitfully. 10 Though the LORD desired to crush him and make him ill, once restitution is made, he will see descendants and enjoy long life, and the LORD’s purpose will be accomplished through him. 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins. 12 So I will assign him a portion with the multitudes, he will divide the spoils of victory with the powerful, because he willingly submitted to death and was numbered with the rebels, when he lifted up the sin of many and intervened on behalf of the rebels.”
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 3:25 : 25 Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.
  • Isa 42:1 : 1 The Lord Commissions His Special Servant“Here is my servant whom I support, my chosen one in whom I take pleasure. I have placed my Spirit on him; he will make just decrees for the nations.
  • Isa 42:21 : 21 The LORD wanted to exhibit his justice by magnifying his law and displaying it.
  • John 15:9-9 : 9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • John 17:4-5 : 4 I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.
  • John 17:24-26 : 24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world. 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me. 26 I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 10:18-19
    2 verses
    88%

    18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

    19Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

  • John 10:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me–

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

    16I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

  • John 10:10-11
    2 verses
    80%

    10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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

  • John 15:12-13
    2 verses
    77%

    12My commandment is this– to love one another just as I have loved you.

    13No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.

  • John 16:27-28
    2 verses
    77%

    27For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

    28I came from the Father and entered into the world, but in turn, I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

  • John 10:27-30
    4 verses
    76%

    27My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

    28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

    29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

    30The Father and I are one.”

  • John 14:31
    75%

    31but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.

  • John 14:28
    75%

    28You heard me say to you,‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

  • John 15:9-10
    2 verses
    74%

    9“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

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

  • John 6:38-40
    3 verses
    74%

    38For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

    39Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

    40For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

  • John 16:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

    16In a little while you will see me no longer; again after a little while, you will see me.”

  • John 17:22-24
    3 verses
    73%

    22The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one–

    23I in them and you in me– that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

    24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

  • John 3:35
    73%

    35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things under his authority.

  • John 12:49-50
    2 verses
    72%

    49For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

    50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • John 17:10
    72%

    10Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

  • John 8:28
    72%

    28Then Jesus said,“When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

  • John 17:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1Jesus Prays for the Father to Glorify Him When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said,“Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you–

    2just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

  • 1 John 3:16
    71%

    16We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • John 6:57
    71%

    57Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

  • John 14:10
    71%

    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

  • John 15:17
    70%

    17This I command you– to love one another.

  • John 17:26
    70%

    26I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

  • John 13:37
    70%

    37Peter said to him,“Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

  • John 17:8
    70%

    8because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

  • John 17:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

    5And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

  • John 14:19-21
    3 verses
    70%

    19In a little while the world will not see me any longer, but you will see me; because I live, you will live too.

    20You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

    21The person who has my commandments and obeys 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 17:19
    70%

    19And I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they too may be truly set apart.

  • John 12:25
    70%

    25The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

  • John 10:7
    70%

    7So Jesus said again,“I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

  • John 5:17
    70%

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”