1 John 3:16

Weymouth NT

We know what love is–through Christ's having laid down His life on our behalf; and in the same way we ought to lay down our lives for our brother men.

Cross References

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many.«

John 10:11

»I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.«

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I am laying down my life for the sheep.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give you, to love one another; that as I have loved you, you also may love one another.

John 3:16

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

Acts 20:28

»Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has placed you to take the oversight for Him and act as shepherds to the Church of God, which He has bought with His own blood.«

Romans 16:4

friends who have endangered their own lives for mine. I am grateful to them, and not I alone, but all the Gentile Churches also.

Romans 5:8

But God gives proof of His love to us in Christ's dying for us while we were still sinners.

2 Corinthians 4:12

Thus we are constantly dying, while you are in full enjoyment of Life.

Ephesians 5:2

And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant odor.

Ephesians 5:25

Married men, love your wives, as Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself up to death for her;

Philippians 2:17

Nay, even if my life is to be poured as a libation upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I rejoice, and I congratulate you all.

Philippians 2:30

because it was for the sake of Christ's work that he came so near death, hazarding, as he did, his very life in endeavouring to make good any deficiency that there might be in your gifts to me.

1 Thessalonians 2:8

Seeing that we were thus drawn affectionately towards you, it would have been a joy to us to have imparted to you not only God's Good News, but to have given our very lives also, because you had become very dear to us.

Titus 2:13

in expectation of the fulfilment of our blessed hope–the Appearing in glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

1 Peter 1:18

knowing, as you do, that it was not with a ransom of perishable wealth, such as silver or gold, that you were set free from your frivolous habits of life which had been handed down to you from your forefathers,

1 Peter 2:24

The burden of our sins He Himself carried in His own body to the Cross and bore it there, so that we, having died so far as our sins are concerned, may live righteous lives. By His wounds yours have been healed.

1 Peter 3:18

because Christ also once for all died for sins, the innocent One for the guilty many, in order to bring us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

1 John 2:6

The man who professes to be continuing in Him is himself also bound to live as He lived.

1 John 2:9

Any one who professes to be in the light and yet hates his brother man is still in darkness.

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the truthful witness, the first of the dead to be born to Life, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins with His own blood,

Revelation 5:9

And now they sing a new song. »It is fitting,« they say, »that Thou shouldst be the One to take the book And break its seals; Because Thou hast been offered in sacrifice, And hast purchased for God with Thine own blood Some out of every tribe and language and people and nation,