John 10:18

God's Word

No one takes my life from me. I give my life of my own free will. I have the authority to give my life, and I have the authority to take my life back again. This is what my Father ordered me to do.”

Cross References

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

John 10:15

So I give my life for my sheep.

John 10:17

The Father loves me because I give my life in order to take it back again.

John 14:31

However, I want the world to know that I love the Father and that I am doing exactly what the Father has commanded me to do. Get up! We have to leave.”

John 15:10

If you obey my commandments, you will live in my love. I have obeyed my Father’s commandments, and in that way I live in his love.

John 19:11

Jesus answered Pilate, “You wouldn’t have any authority over me if it hadn’t been given to you from above. That’s why the man who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

John 5:26

The Father is the source of life, and he has enabled the Son to be the source of life too.

John 5:30

I can’t do anything on my own. As I listen ⌞to the Father⌟, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don’t try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants.

John 6:38

I haven’t come from heaven to do what I want to do. I’ve come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

Acts 2:24

But God brought him from death back to life and destroyed the pains of death, because death had no power to hold him.

Acts 2:32

“God brought this man Jesus back to life. We are all witnesses to that.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the source of life. But God brought him back to life, and we are witnesses to that.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to set us free from every sin and to cleanse us so that we can be his special people who are enthusiastic about doing good things.

Hebrews 2:9

Jesus was made a little lower than the angels, but we see him crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death. Through God’s kindness  he died on behalf of everyone.