John 15:13

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends;

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Referenced Verses

  • John 10:11 : 11 `I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
  • John 10:15 : 15 according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious; 7 for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die; 8 and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, may we love one another, because the love is of God, and every one who is loving, of God he hath been begotten, and doth know God; 8 he who is not loving did not know God, because God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him; 10 in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    9According as the Father did love me, I also loved you, remain in my love;

    10if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

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

    12`This is my command, that ye love one another, according as I did love you;

  • John 15:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

    15no more do I call you servants, because the servant hath not known what his lord doth, and you I have called friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I did make known to you.

    16`Ye did not choose out me, but I chose out you, and did appoint you, that ye might go away, and might bear fruit, and your fruit might remain, that whatever ye may ask of the Father in my name, He may give you.

    17`These things I command you, that ye love one another;

    18if the world doth hate you, ye know that it hath hated me before you;

  • 1 John 3:16
    79%

    16in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    78%

    34`A new commandment I give to you, that ye love one another; according as I did love you, that ye also love one another;

    35in this shall all know that ye are my disciples, if ye may have love one to another.'

  • John 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17`Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

    18no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

  • John 10:11
    74%

    11`I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

  • John 13:15
    73%

    15`For an example I gave to you, that, according as I did to you, ye also may do;

  • Rom 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

    8and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

  • John 12:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25he who is loving his life shall lose it, and he who is hating his life in this world -- to life age-during shall keep it;

    26if any one may minister to me, let him follow me, and where I am, there also my ministrant shall be; and if any one may minister to me -- honour him will the Father.

  • John 13:1
    72%

    1And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are' in the world -- to the end he loved them.

  • John 10:15
    72%

    15according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

  • John 14:15
    72%

    15`If ye love me, my commands keep,

  • John 3:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

    16for God did so love the world, that His Son -- the only begotten -- He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

  • Luke 12:4
    71%

    4`And I say to you, my friends, be not afraid of those killing the body, and after these things are not having anything over to do;

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

    9In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

    10in this is the love, not that we loved God, but that He did love us, and did send His Son a propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if thus did God love us, we also ought one another to love;

  • John 11:36
    70%

    36The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

  • John 14:28
    70%

    28ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

  • John 13:37
    70%

    37Peter saith to him, `Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    70%

    15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

  • John 16:27
    70%

    27for the Father himself doth love you, because me ye have loved, and ye have believed that I from God came forth;

  • Matt 16:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

    25for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake shall find it,

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

    5`I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

  • Prov 18:24
    69%

    24A man with friends `is' to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

  • Acts 15:26
    69%

    26men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ --

  • John 14:21
    69%

    21he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

  • John 14:23
    69%

    23Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

  • John 12:33
    69%

    33And this he said signifying by what death he was about to die;

  • John 11:5
    69%

    5And Jesus was loving Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus,

  • John 21:19
    69%

    19and this he said, signifying by what death he shall glorify God; and having said this, he saith to him, `Be following me.'

  • 1 John 3:14
    69%

    14we -- we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

  • John 14:31
    69%

    31but that the world may know that I love the Father, and according as the Father gave me command so I do; arise, we may go hence.

  • John 14:19
    69%

    19yet a little, and the world doth no more behold me, and ye behold me, because I live, and ye shall live;

  • Luke 9:24
    68%

    24for whoever may will to save his life, shall lose it, and whoever may lose his life for my sake, he shall save it;

  • Mark 8:35
    68%

    35for whoever may will to save his life shall lose it; and whoever may lose his life for my sake and for the good news' sake, he shall save it;