for I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.'

He said to him, 'I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

For this reason my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

Peter said to him, "Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you."

Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow, till you have denied me three times.

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

Only, let each one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to him, and in which God has called him. This is the rule I lay down in all the churches.

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.