1 John 3:16

The Passion Translation

This is how we have discovered love’s reality: Jesus sacrificed his life for us. Because of this great love, we should be willing to lay down our lives for one another.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

For even the Son of Man did not come expecting to be served but to serve and give his life in exchange for the salvation of many.”

John 10:11

I am the Good Shepherd who lays down my life as a sacrifice for the sheep.

John 10:15

just as my Father knows my heart and I know my Father’s heart. I am ready to give my life for the sheep.

John 13:34

“So I give you now a new commandment: Love each other just as much as I have loved you.

John 3:16

For here is the way God loved the world—he gave his only, unique Son as a gift. So now everyone who believes in him will never perish but experience everlasting life.

Acts 20:28

So guard your hearts. Be true shepherds over all the flock and feed them well. Remember, it was the Holy Spirit who appointed you to guard and oversee the churches that belong to Jesus, the Anointed One, which he purchased and established by his own blood.

Romans 16:4

for they’ve risked their own lives to save mine. I’m so thankful for them, and not just I, but all the congregations among the non-Jewish people respect them for their ministry.

Romans 5:8

But Christ proved God’s passionate love for us by dying in our place while we were still lost and ungodly!

2 Corinthians 4:12

So, then, death is at work in us but it releases life in you.

Ephesians 5:2

And continue to walk surrendered to the extravagant love of Christ, for he surrendered his life as a sacrifice for us. His great love for us was pleasing to God, like an aroma of adoration—a sweet healing fragrance.

Ephesians 5:25

And to the husbands, you are to demonstrate love for your wives with the same tender devotion that Christ demonstrated to us, his bride. For he died for us, sacrificing himself

Philippians 2:17

But I will rejoice even if my life is poured out like a liquid offering to God over your sacrificial and surrendered lives of faith.

Philippians 2:30

Because of me, he put his life on the line, despising the danger, so that he could provide for me with what you couldn’t, since you were so far away. And he did it all because of his ministry for Christ.

1 Thessalonians 2:8

With a mother’s love and affectionate attachment to you, we were very happy to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our lives—because you had become so dear to us.

Titus 2:13

For we continue to wait for the fulfillment of our hope in the dawning splendor of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus, the Anointed One.

1 Peter 1:18

For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes,

1 Peter 2:24

He himself carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we would be dead to sin and live for righteousness. Our instant healing flowed from his wounding.

1 Peter 3:18

Christ suffered and died for sins once and for all—the innocent for the guilty —to bring you near to God by his body being put to death and by being raised to life by the Spirit.

1 John 2:6

not just by saying, “I am intimate with God,” but by walking in the footsteps of Jesus.

1 John 2:9

Anyone who says, “I am in the light,” while holding hatred in his heart toward a fellow believer is still in the darkness.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ the Faithful Witness, the Firstborn from among the dead and the ruling King, who rules over the kings of the earth! Now to the one who constantly loves us and has loosed us from our sins by his own blood,

Revelation 5:9

And they were all singing this new song of praise to the Lamb: “Because you were slaughtered for us, you are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals. Your blood was the price paid to redeem us. You purchased us to bring us to God out of every tribe, language, people group, and nation.