1 John 3:16

New English Translation

We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

John 10:11

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

John 10:15

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

John 13:34

“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 3:16

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Acts 20:28

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Romans 16:4

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 4:12

As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Ephesians 5:2

and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her

Philippians 2:17

But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.

Philippians 2:30

since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

1 Thessalonians 2:8

with such affection for you we were happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

Titus 2:13

as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed – not by perishable things like silver or gold,

1 Peter 2:24

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

1 John 2:6

The one who says he resides in God ought himself to walk just as Jesus walked.

1 John 2:9

The one who says he is in the light but still hates his fellow Christian is still in the darkness.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ – the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood

Revelation 5:9

They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.