Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. New Living Translation There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. English Standard Version Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Berean Standard Bible Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. Berean Literal Bible Greater love has no one than this, that one should lay down his life for his friends. King James Bible Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. New King James Version Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. New American Standard Bible Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. NASB 1995 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. NASB 1977 “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. Legacy Standard Bible Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. Amplified Bible No one has greater love [nor stronger commitment] than to lay down his own life for his friends. Christian Standard Bible No one has greater love than this: to lay down his life for his friends. Holman Christian Standard Bible No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends. American Standard Version Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “There is no greater love than this: that a person would lay down his life for the sake of his friends.” Contemporary English Version The greatest way to show love for friends is to die for them. Douay-Rheims Bible Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. English Revised Version Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. GOD'S WORD® Translation The greatest love you can show is to give your life for your friends. Good News Translation The greatest love you can have for your friends is to give your life for them. International Standard Version No one shows greater love than when he lays down his life for his friends. Literal Standard Version greater love has no one than this, that anyone may lay down his life for his friends; Majority Standard Bible Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. New American Bible No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. NET Bible No one has greater love than this--that one lays down his life for his friends. New Revised Standard Version No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. New Heart English Bible Greater love has no one than this, that someone lays down his life for his friends. Webster's Bible Translation Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Weymouth New Testament No one has greater love than this--a man laying down his life for his friends. World English Bible Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. Young's Literal Translation greater love than this hath no one, that any one his life may lay down for his friends; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context No Greater Love12This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are My friends if you do what I command you.… Cross References Luke 12:4 I tell you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. John 17:19 For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth. Romans 5:7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. Romans 5:8 But God proves His love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 1 John 3:16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. Treasury of Scripture Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. John 10:11,15 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep… Romans 5:6-8 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly… Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. Jump to Previous Friends Gives Greater Laying Love SomeoneJump to Next Friends Gives Greater Laying Love SomeoneJohn 15 1. The union of Jesus and his members shown under the parable of a vine.18. The hatred of the world. 26. The office of the Holy Spirit. (13) Greater love hath no man than this.--Better, . . . hath no one than this. (Comp. Note on John 10:18; John 10:29.) Nothing greater is conceivable in the thought of love. He has spoken of His own love for them as the measure of their love for each other. The thought of this verse dwells upon what His love really was and what theirs should also be. (Comp. especially Note on 1John 3:16.) That a man lay down his life for his friends.--Better, that any one . . . For the phrase "lay down his life," comp. John 10:11. The term "friends" is here used because those whom He is addressing were His friends. There is no opposition between this passage and Romans 5:6 et seq. The point dwelt upon is the greatness of the love, and the highest reach of love is the self-sacrifice which spares not life itself. . . . Verse 13. - Greater love than this (love) no one hath, namely (ἵνα), that one should lay down his life for his friends. Meyer and Lange endeavor to maintain even here the telic force of ἵνα, "The love to you is of so consummate a character, that its object and purpose is seen in my laying down my life for my friends;" and Hengstenberg thinks so because probably a reference here is made to Isaiah 53:10, that our Lord was pointing to his atoning death - to a death needed alike by enemies and friends. Such an interpretation supposes the lofty purpose of the greatest love. To me, however, it seems more probable that the translation given above places the argument upon a surer; because more common, human, experience. The disposition to die for ungodly and for enemies is exalted by St. Paul (Romans 5:8) above the self-sacrifice involved in dying for the good. Still, which may be shown, and has often been shown in self-sacrificing death for those who are beloved, whatever other and wider ends may be discerned afterwards and spoken of in other connections, he is here asserting that the love of friendship is quite strong and intense enough to secure such a sacrifice. And he adds -Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Greaterμείζονα (meizona) Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular - Comparative Strong's 3173: Large, great, in the widest sense. love ἀγάπην (agapēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 26: From agapao; love, i.e. Affection or benevolence; specially a love-feast. has ἔχει (echei) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold. no one οὐδεὶς (oudeis) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3762: No one, none, nothing. than this, ταύτης (tautēs) Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it. that ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. [he] τις (tis) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object. lay down θῇ (thē) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 5087: To put, place, lay, set, fix, establish. A prolonged form of a primary theo to place. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. life ψυχὴν (psychēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely. for ὑπὲρ (hyper) Preposition Strong's 5228: Gen: in behalf of; acc: above. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. friends. φίλων (philōn) Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural Strong's 5384: Friendly; subst: a friend, an associate. Properly, dear, i.e. A friend; actively, fond, i.e. Friendly. 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