9 Bible Verses about Jesus Freely Giving His Life

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

This is how we have come to know love: the Messiah gave his life for us. We, too, ought to give our lives for our brothers.

He gave himself as a ransom for everyone, the testimony at the proper time.

"I'm the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again. No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

I no longer live, but the Messiah lives in me, and the life that I am now living in this body I live by the faithfulness of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Husbands, love your wives as the Messiah loved the church and gave himself for it,

as we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearance of our great God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.