John 13:15

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.

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

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

I beg you therefore, be imitators of me.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ.

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ, I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

not as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

The humble also will increase their joy in Yahweh, and the poor among men will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Finally, all of you be like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous,

seeing that his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue,

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

but he shall wash its innards and its legs with water. The priest shall burn all of it on the altar, for a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh.

“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.

He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

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

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn’t behave ourselves rebelliously among you,

to speak evil of no one, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all humility toward all men.

Having been made perfect, he became to all of those who obey him the author of eternal salvation,

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

One who says, “I know him,” and doesn’t keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn’t in him.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—

Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

Yahweh your God, who goes before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

It pleased Yahweh, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law and make it honorable.

But Jesus, answering, said to him, “Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed him.

“Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

If anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God, in those who are saved and in those who perish:

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

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

not because we don’t have the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, that you should imitate us.

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked.