John 10:18

New Living Translation

No one can take my life from me. I sacrifice it voluntarily. For I have the authority to lay it down when I want to and also to take it up again. For this is what my Father has commanded.”

Cross References

John 10:11

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

John 10:15

just as my Father knows me and I know the Father. So I sacrifice my life for the sheep.

John 10:17

“The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again.

John 14:31

but I will do what the Father requires of me, so that the world will know that I love the Father. Come, let’s be going.

John 15:10

When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 19:11

Then Jesus said, “You would have no power over me at all unless it were given to you from above. So the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

John 5:26

The Father has life in himself, and he has granted that same life-giving power to his Son.

John 5:30

I can do nothing on my own. I judge as God tells me. Therefore, my judgment is just, because I carry out the will of the one who sent me, not my own will.

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me, not to do my own will.

Acts 2:24

But God released him from the horrors of death and raised him back to life, for death could not keep him in its grip.

Acts 2:32

“God raised Jesus from the dead, and we are all witnesses of this.

Acts 3:15

You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. And we are witnesses of this fact!

Titus 2:14

He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing good deeds.

Hebrews 2:9

What we do see is Jesus, who for a little while was given a position “a little lower than the angels”; and because he suffered death for us, he is now “crowned with glory and honor.” Yes, by God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for everyone.