 | John Joseph Wynne - 1925 - 284 sidor
...industry has yet provided any conveniences? and to live here that we may bring back to God men who are so unlike men that we must live in daily expectation...so, to do what the Apostle said to the Corinthians, 'Daily I die, I protest by your glory, brethren, whom I have in Christ Jesus Our Lord', than to drag... | |
 | John Joseph Wynne - 1925 - 284 sidor
...continually in danger, as they have threatened us, of seeing them fall upon those who have done no wrong1? Indeed, if He who is the Truth itself had not declared...so, to do what the Apostle said to the Corinthians, 'Daily I die, I protest by your glory, brethren, whom I have in Christ Jesus Our Lord', than to drag... | |
 | Edward Collins Vacek, SJ - 1994 - 380 sidor
...sharers in the divine nature (Gal 3:26, 4:5-7; Rom 8:14-17; Col 1:18; 1 Jn 3:9; 2 Pt 1:4). Jesus says that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for another, but these others are described not as strangers but as "friends" (Jn 15:13). Friendship... | |
 | William L. Roth, Timothy Parsons-Heather - 1999 - 708 sidor
...bottomless depths of His Most Sacred Heart. This is the majestic moment of history which has forever proved that there is no greater Love than to lay down one's life for their friends. Christ accepted death so that the Father Almighty could reveal that not even His... | |
 | Margaret Nutting Ralph - 2010 - 144 sidor
...exile (587-537 BC) was ending and is taught in the Book of Jonah (more about this later). The statement that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends is said in relation to Jesus' sacrifice for us. It refers to the fact that Jesus... | |
 | Bernard F. Law - 2002 - 382 sidor
...He suffered and died that we might have forgiveness for our sins and newness of life. He taught us that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for a friend — and he made us all friends through the blood of His cross. The compassion of the Father... | |
 | Bill Hamon - 2005 - 448 sidor
...you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. "19° "Jesus said that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for his friends. He proved it when He laid down His life for us on the cross. When we lay down our... | |
 | François Roustang - 2006 - 444 sidor
...danger—according to their threats—of being attacked, innocent as we are of any wrong. Indeed, if he who is Truth itself had not declared that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life once and for all for one's friends, I should conceive it equally noble, or even more so, to do what... | |
 | Jerome H. Neyrey - 2007 - 72 sidor
...commandments and abide in his love (15:9). Love/Greater Love. One senses a certain elitism in the statement that there is no "greater love" than to lay down one's life for one's friends (i5:i3).411 Frequently in this Gospel, persons, things, and behaviors are compared... | |
 | Michael Glenn Maness - 2007 - 436 sidor
...choice. Some choices are difficult to make because of our own deep-seated selfishness. We already know that there is no greater Love than to lay down one's life for one's family or a friend: the hard part is the laying down of one's life. Laying down one's life... | |
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He who is the Truth itself had not declared that there is no greater love than to lay down one's life, verily and once for all, for one's friends, I should conceive it a thing equally noble, or even more so, to do what the Apostle said to the Corinthians... 
