By this the love of God is manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him.

In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

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."

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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

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

Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit placed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of the Lord, and of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

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

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.

Husbands, love your own wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

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

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your futile way of life handed down from your forefathers,

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,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and who washed us from our sins in His own blood,

And they sang a new song, saying: "You are worthy to take the scroll, and to open its seals; because You were slain, and You redeemed us to God by Your blood, out of every tribe and language and people and nation;

He who claims to abide in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Beloved, if in this way God loved us, indeed we ought to love one another.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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

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

But even if I am being poured upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice; [yea], and I rejoice with you all.

because for the work of Christ he drew near unto death, being careless with his life, in order that he might fill up that which was lacking in your service to me.