¹³ Greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends.

¹¹ I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.

² And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

¹⁵ Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

⁶ For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.

⁷ Now it is hard for anyone to give his life even for an upright man, though it might be that for a good man someone would give his life.

⁸ But God has made clear his love to us, in that, when we were still sinners, Christ gave his life for us.

⁷ My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.

⁸ He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.

⁹ And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.

¹⁰ And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.

¹¹ My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.