John 10:17

Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.

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I lay down my life that I may take it again — I cheerfully die to expiate the sins of men, to the end I may rise again for their justification.

¹⁷ Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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