¹¹ ‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹⁵ just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

⁹ I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours.

Jesus prays for all believers

²⁰ ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,

²⁸ Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God,^[a] which he bought with his own blood.^[b]

³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all – how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: he sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.