just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as] a ransom for many."

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

Just as the Father knows Me, I also know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it [up] again.

Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life on behalf of his friends.

For when we were weak, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Who is he that condemns? Christ is the [One] having died, but rather also having been raised, who is even at [the] right [hand] of God, who also intercedes on our behalf.

For whether we live, we live to the Lord; and whether we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

For to this end Christ died and rose and lived [again], so that He might be Lord of both [the] dead and [the] living.

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

and He died for all, so that they who live should live no longer for themselves, but for the [One] who died for them and rose again.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony in due time;

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as [His] own possession, zealous for good works.

who Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, in order that having died to sins, we might live unto righteousness--by whose stripes you were healed.

For Christ also suffered once to atone for sins, [the] just for [the] unjust, that He might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit,

Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who have died, lest you be sorrowful as those who have no hope.

Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.