18 zNo one takes it from me, but yI lay it down aof my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and bI have authority to take it up again. cThis charge I have received from my Father.”
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John 10:17
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.
John 5:30
“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
John 2:19
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
John 12:49
For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.
John 14:31
but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.
John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.
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