John 15:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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Referenced Verses

  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
  • John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 John 4:7-9 : 7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • John 15:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    9Even as the Father hath loved me, I also have loved you: abide ye in my love.

    10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

    11These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy may be in you, and [that] your joy may be made full.

    12This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you.

  • John 15:14-18
    5 verses
    79%

    14Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.

    15No longer do I call you servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known unto you.

    16Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

    17These things I command you, that ye may love one another.

    18If the world hateth you, ye know that it hath hated me before [it hated] you.

  • 1 John 3:16
    79%

    16Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

  • John 13:34-35
    2 verses
    78%

    34A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

    35By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

  • John 10:17-18
    2 verses
    77%

    17Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

    18No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father.

  • John 10:11
    74%

    11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep.

  • John 13:15
    73%

    15For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you.

  • Rom 5:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.

    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

  • John 12:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

    26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

  • John 13:1
    72%

    1Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto his Father, having loved his own that were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

  • John 10:15
    72%

    15even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 14:15
    72%

    15If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

  • John 3:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • Luke 12:4
    71%

    4And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

  • 1 John 4:9-11
    3 verses
    70%

    9Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

    10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.

    11Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  • John 11:36
    70%

    36The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

  • John 14:28
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    28Ye heard how I said to you, I go away, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father: for the Father is greater than I.

  • John 13:37
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    37Peter saith unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee even now? I will lay down my life for thee.

  • 2 Cor 5:15
    70%

    15and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

  • John 16:27
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    27for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

  • Matt 16:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

    25For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

  • John 15:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me.

    5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

  • Prov 18:24
    69%

    24He that maketh many friends [doeth it] to his own destruction; But there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  • Acts 15:26
    69%

    26men that have hazarded their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • John 14:21
    69%

    21He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

  • John 14:23
    69%

    23Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

  • John 12:33
    69%

    33But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die.

  • John 11:5
    69%

    5Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

  • John 21:19
    69%

    19Now this he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should glorify God. And when he had spoken this, he saith unto him, Follow me.

  • 1 John 3:14
    69%

    14We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

  • John 14:31
    69%

    31but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

  • John 14:19
    69%

    19Yet a little while, and the world beholdeth me no more; but ye behold me: because I live, ye shall live also.

  • Luke 9:24
    68%

    24For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

  • Mark 8:35
    68%

    35For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's shall save it.