John 15:13

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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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.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 God is Love Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been fathered by God and knows God. 8 The person who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    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.

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

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

  • John 15:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

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

    15I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

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

    17This I command you– to love one another.

    18The World’s Hatred“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

  • 1 John 3:16
    79%

    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 13:34-35
    2 verses
    78%

    34“I give you a new commandment– to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

    35Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples– if you have love for one another.”

  • John 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

    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.”

  • John 10:11
    74%

    11“I 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– you should do just as I have done for you.

  • Rom 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7(For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

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

  • John 12:25-26
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    72%

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

    26If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

  • John 13:1
    72%

    1Washing the Disciples’ Feet Just before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

  • John 10:15
    72%

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

  • John 14:15
    72%

    15Teaching on the Holy Spirit“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

  • John 3:15-16
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    71%

    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

    16For this is the way God loved the world: 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%

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

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

    9By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him.

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

    11Dear friends, if God so loved us, then we also ought to love one another.

  • John 11:36
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    36Thus the people who had come to mourn said,“Look how much he loved him!”

  • John 14:28
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    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 13:37
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    37Peter said to him,“Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!”

  • 2 Cor 5:15
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    15And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him 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
    2 verses
    70%

    24Then Jesus said to his disciples,“If anyone wants to become my follower, 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 because of me will find it.

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

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

    5“I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

  • Prov 18:24
    69%

    24There are companions who harm one another, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

  • Acts 15:26
    69%

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

  • John 14:21
    69%

    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 14:23
    69%

    23Jesus replied,“If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

  • John 12:33
    69%

    33(Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

  • John 11:5
    69%

    5(Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.)

  • John 21:19
    69%

    19(Now Jesus said this to indicate clearly by what kind of death Peter was going to glorify God.) After he said this, Jesus told Peter,“Follow me.”

  • 1 John 3:14
    69%

    14We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • John 14:31
    69%

    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 14:19
    69%

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

  • Luke 9:24
    68%

    24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

  • Mark 8:35
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    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.