28 Just as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister*+ and to give his soul* a ransom* in exchange for many.”+

16 “For God loved+ the world* so much that he gave his only-begotten Son,+ in order that everyone exercising faith+ in him might not be destroyed+ but have everlasting life.+

8 But God recommends his own love+ to us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.+

9 By this the love of God was made manifest in our case,+ because God sent forth his only-begotten* Son+ into the world that we might gain life through him.+