John 10:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For this [reason] the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life–to take it back again.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ “This is why the Father loves me: I give up my life so that I can take it up again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

John 10:17 Cross References

Isaiah 42:1

Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations.

Isaiah 42:21

The Lord was pleased, for his righteousness' sake, to magnify his law and make it glorious.

John 10:11

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

John 10:15

as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:18

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father.”

John 3:25

Now a discussion arose between John's disciples and a Jew over purifying.

Hebrews 1:9

Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with the oil of gladness beyond thy comrades.”

Hebrews 2:9

But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.