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

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

As the Father knows Me, even so I 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 again.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

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

Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, but rather is also raised, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

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

For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord over 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, that those who live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again.

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

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

who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify a people for His own possession, zealous unto good works.

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

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

But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not as others who have no hope.

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