Six ways to encounter God here
A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 15:13, and Living Bread opens it right there.
Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.
The web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
- 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.
- Romans 5:6
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
- John 10:15
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
- 1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
How it points to Christ
Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.