John 15:13 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

¹³ No one can give greater proof of love than by laying down his life for his friends.

¹¹ I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.

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

⁶ Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless. ⁷ Even for an upright man scarcely any one will die. For a really good man perhaps some one might even dare to die. ⁸ But God puts his love for us beyond all doubt by the fact that Christ died on our behalf while we were still sinners.

² And live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as 'an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.'

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, because Love comes from God; and every one who loves has received the new Life from God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love has not learned to know God; for God is Love. ⁹ The love of God was revealed to us by his sending his only Son into the world, that we might find Life through him. ¹⁰ His love is seen in this--not in our having loved God, but in his loving us and sending his Son to be an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God loved us thus, we, surely, ought to love one another.