Sentences with phrase «jesus laid down his life for»

Jesus laid down his life for you, you should return the favour.

In short, Jesus laid down His life for His enemies.

Not exact matches

Let us praise the Lord for having let Arnaud imitate Jesus, to live out the teaching that «greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends.»

As I fingered my rosary beads, I recalled Jesus's words: «No one has greater love then this, to lay down one's life for his friends.»

Neither can we be following the request Jesus made before laying down his life for us.

Jesus wants us to follow His example of death and resurrection so that we lay down our lives for others.

Peter's commission to feed Jesus» sheep was contingent on his threefold declaration of love for Jesus, a love that would require that he be willing to lay down his life.

God is love, and Jesus revealed the love of God to us in laying down His life for us.

As we lay down our lives for Jesus and seek to follow his lead we will see the kingdom of God being extended everywhere in every way.

Jesus in laying down his life for us has shown what love may be.

When Jesus says, as in the Fourth Gospel's interpretative words, «Love one another as I have loved you, greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends,» the very quality of the love which God has expressed through Jesus becomes the quality and character of suffering love poured out for another beyond the worthiness of that other.

In his introduction to the fourth way in the form of a motu proprio (or, decree on his own initiative), the pope opens with the words of Jesus according to St. John: «No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends».

This relation was made possible by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Who submitted to the Father's will by obeying Him to the extent of laying down His life for us.

A common denominator of Christian response» if there can be such a thing» is that guilt for Jesus» death is the burden of all sinners, but not of one person or group, especially when Jesus said, «No one takes my life; I lay it down myself» (John 10:18).

He does not mean the feigned affection that sometimes passes for love in the church, but the genuine article — the kind of love Jesus has always shown for his disciples, the kind of love that a mother normally shows for her children, the kind of love that stands ready to lay down one's life for the other.

There's plenty of tension here, and more if we consider Peter's speech in Acts 4, where he seems interested in keeping strays out of the fold («There is salvation in no one else») and 1 John 3:16 - 24, which picks up on the theme of the One who lays down his life of his own accord and then sees an outrageous connection between Jesus» action and our own: «We ought to lay down our lives for one another.»

, Jesus, as the Good Shepherd, did not put anyone or anything to death, but instead laid down His life for the sheep (John 10:11).

Jesus says that He lays down His life for His sheep, not for the goats.

But John interprets the death of Jesus not only as the continuation of the life of Jesus, but also as its climax and culmination: «Greater love than this no man has, than that a man lay down his life for his friends» (15:13).

We know what that is as Jesus told us «Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends» (Jn15: 13) Sex is part of God's plan to share His life and love with us in Jesus Christ.

If Jesus is our guide, we bring peace, not by killing others, but by laying down our lives for others, and especially for our enemies.

In John's story of the good shepherd, Jesus is portrayed as the good shepherd because when the wolf comes he does not flee like a hireling, but because the sheep are his own he lays down his life for his sheep.

They may find that they object much more to Jesus» followers than his actual teaching If anyone illustrated a willingness to lay down his life for his beliefs it was John Galt (and for that matter Ayn Rand).

Thank you young man for representing Jesus Christ and laying down your life for the care of this young woman who God loves.

While I've spoken at many of them, and Passion has influenced them around the world, I want to be able to lay down at the feet of Jesus and say I gave it a shot — I tried to build into the local community of faith that he gave his life for, that he loved, and that he believed is the best agent for change in the world.

The Jews nor the Romans killed Jesus Christ... he laid down his OWN life for the remission of sins for those who believe on him ALONE!

I love my wife as Jesus loved the church, where he would be willing to lay down his life for her.

Hi Jeremy, I have been thinking and trying to put all the pieces together... I still believe that Jesus flesh was still struggling through the ordeal but His Spirit was willing... I agree that Jesus wasn't asking to be saved and was in fact saying He is ready to drink the cup but It appears that's Jesus was asking for strength and that God will give Him the power to endure... Such as Heb 5:7 says that Jesus prayer was heard and that God was able to save Him from death meaning Jesus wasn't allowed to die until He fulfilled the prophecy of the cross... I believe Jesus had the power to lay down His life and the strength was given by God the Father.

The same Gospel which says, «God so loved the world that he gave his only Son», also puts into the mouth of Jesus, «Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.»

May I remind us all that Jesus gave us the example of how we can all adopt this attitude, and translate it into laying down our lives for John McArthur, and his detractors?

Jesus said, «Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends».

· Jesus is even willing to lay down his human life for us in the conquest of sin and death, and then to take it up again - resurrected, renewed and imperishable (Jn 10, 16 - 18).

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome