John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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- John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
- Eph 5:2 : 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
- John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
- Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God. 8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love. 9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only 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 as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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- John 15:9-124 verses83%
9 Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
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.
11 I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12 "This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
- John 15:14-185 verses79%
14 You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
16 You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
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16 By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
- John 13:34-352 verses78%
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
- John 10:17-182 verses77%
17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
18 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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11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
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15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.
- Rom 5:7-82 verses73%
7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- John 12:25-262 verses72%
25 He who loves his life will lose it. He who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.
26 If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.
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1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
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15 even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
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15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
- John 3:15-162 verses71%
15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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4 "I tell you, my friends, don't be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
- 1 John 4:9-113 verses70%
9 By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only 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 as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
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36 The Jews therefore said, "See how much affection he had for him!"
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28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
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37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."
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15 He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
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27 for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God.
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24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, and whoever will lose his life for my sake will find it.
- John 15:4-52 verses69%
4 Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't 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. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
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24 A man of many companions may be ruined, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
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26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
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23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
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33 But he said this, signifying by what kind of death he should die.
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5 Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.
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19 Now he said this, signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. When he had said this, he said to him, "Follow me."
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14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn't love his brother remains in death.
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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.
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19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
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24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it.
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35 For whoever wants to save his life will lose it; and whoever will lose his life for my sake and the Gospel's will save it.