Bible Verses About Ultimate Sacrifice
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for ultimate sacrifice, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,105 votes, led by Ephesians 5:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Ultimate Sacrifice
Ephesians 5:2146 votes
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.
Mark 10:45136 votes
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 3:16136 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Hebrews 9:26133 votes
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Philippians 2:8128 votes
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
1 Peter 3:18111 votes
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Romans 5:8108 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
2 Corinthians 5:21108 votes
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
John 15:13104 votes
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Isaiah 53:596 votes
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 John 3:1696 votes
Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
Hebrews 10:1283 votes
But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;
Hebrews 10:1079 votes
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Galatians 2:2076 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Peter 2:2464 votes
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Matthew 20:2852 votes
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
1 John 4:1048 votes
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 3:2544 votes
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
Hebrews 9:2840 votes
So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Galatians 1:436 votes
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
1 Corinthians 5:732 votes
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Hebrews 13:1232 votes
Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Romans 5:6-830 votes
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Hebrews 9:26-2830 votes
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Romans 5:7-829 votes
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
What does the Bible say about ultimate sacrifice?
Readers most often cite Ephesians 5:2 on the subject of ultimate sacrifice. Across 2,105 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 10:45, John 3:16, Hebrews 9:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.