9 Bible Verses about Jesus Freely Giving His Life

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father.

In this we have known the love, that He laid down His soul in our behalf; and we ought to lay down our souls in behalf of the brethren.

Who gave Himself a ransom for all, the testimony for its own times,

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his soul for the sheep.

even as the Father knoweth Me, and I know the Father; and I lay down My soul for the sheep.

On this account My Father loveth Me, because I lay down My soul, that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. This commandment I received from My Father.

I have been crucified with Christ; and no longer am I living, but Christ is living in me; and, in so far as I am now living in flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me, and gave Himself for me.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

looking for the blissful hope and appearing of the glory of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ;