¹³ Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

² Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

¹⁵ even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.

⁶ For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

⁷ For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.

⁸ But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

⁸ He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

⁹ By this was God's love revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

¹¹ Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.