Bible Cross References
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 10:11
"I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep.
John 10:15
(SEE 10:14)
Romans 5:6-8
6
For when we were still helpless, Christ died for the wicked at the time that God chose.
7
It is a difficult thing for someone to die for a righteous person. It may even be that someone might dare to die for a good person.
8
But God has shown us how much he loves us---it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
Ephesians 5:2
Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.
1 John 4:7-11
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Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
8
Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.
9
And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.
10
This is what love is: it is not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the means by which our sins are forgiven.
11
Dear friends, if this is how God loved us, then we should love one another.