¹⁷ “Therefore My Father ^(A)loves Me, ^(B)because I lay down My life that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I ^(C)have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. ^(D)This command I have received from My Father.”

^13 (A)Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ^(B)“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), ^14 (C)that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the ^(D)Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive ^(E)the promise of the Spirit through faith.

^13 (A)Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.