"'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.'"


1 Peter 2:24

"Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness."


2 Corinthians 5:15

"He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again."