1 John 3:16 Cross References - Riverside

¹⁶ By this we have come to know love — that Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that every one who believes in him may not perish, but have life eternal.

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

³⁴ A new command I give you, to love one another, as I have loved you — that so you love one another.

¹² This is my command — to love one another as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down his life for his friends.

²⁸ "Be watchful of yourselves and of all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers. Shepherd the church of God which he bought with his own blood.

⁸ But God shows his own love to us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.

⁴ who for my life risked their own necks, to whom not I alone give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.

² and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God yielding a fragrant odor.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it,

¹⁷ But if I am poured out as a libation on your sacrificial offering of faith, I rejoice and share the joy of you all.

³⁰ because for the work of Christ he was near to death, hazarding his life to complete the service you were not here to do for me.

¹³ waiting for the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the great God and of our Savior Christ Jesus,

¹⁸ for you know that you were not ransomed with perishable things, silver or gold, from your purposeless life handed down from your forefathers,

²⁴ He bore our sins in his own body on the tree that we might die to sins and live to righteousness.

¹⁸ For Christ once for all died for sins, a righteous man for unrighteous men, so that he might lead us to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit,

⁶ He who says that he is abiding in him ought himself to live as he lived.

⁹ By this the love of God to us was made plain: that God sent his only Son into the world so that we may have life through him. ¹⁰ In this is love — not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God has so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

⁵ and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and freed us from our sins by his blood,

⁹ Then they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy art thou to take the book and to open its seals, for thou wast slain and didst ransom for God by thy blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation,