John 10:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

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  • John 10:17 : 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
  • John 14:31 : 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
  • John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears: Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. 7 Then I said, "Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll. 8 I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart."
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Matt 26:53-56 : 53 Or do you think that I couldn't ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?" 55 In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, "Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn't arrest me. 56 But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
  • John 2:19-21 : 19 Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20 The Jews therefore said, "Forty-six years was this temple in building, and will you raise it up in three days?" 21 But he spoke of the temple of his body.
  • Heb 5:6-9 : 6 As he says also in another place, "You are a priest forever, After the order of Melchizedek." 7 He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, 8 though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered. 9 Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,
  • Heb 10:6-9 : 6 In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you had no pleasure. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of me) To do your will, God.'" 8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law), 9 then he has said, "Behold, I have come to do your will." He takes away the first, that he may establish the second, 10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • John 18:5-6 : 5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I AM." Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When therefore he said to them, "I AM," they went backward, and fell to the ground.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin."
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
  • Phil 2:6-8 : 6 who, existing in the form of God, didn't consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

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