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. I have received this commandment of my Father.

Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

who gave himself a ransom for all, the testimony to be rendered in its own times;

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

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

On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life 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. I have received this commandment of my Father.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

awaiting the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;