"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
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Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.
Hereby we have known love, because *he* has laid down his life for us; and *we* ought for the brethren to lay down [our] lives.
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down;