John 15:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Common English Bible

¹³ No one has greater love than to give up one’s life for one’s friends.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ No one has a greater love than this: that he lay down his life for his friends.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

John 15:13 Cross References

Luke 12:4

And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them which kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

John 10:15

even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

Ephesians 5:2

and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell.

1 John 3:16

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.