• John 10:17-18
  “Therefore My 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 power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
   
• John 10:15
  As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.
   
• John 15:12-13
  This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
   
• 1 John 3:16
  By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
   
• John 10:11
  “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.
   

Related Scriptures

• Isaiah 53:7
  He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
  Yet He opened not His mouth;
  He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
  And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
  So He opened not His mouth.
  
   
• Romans 5:8
  But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.