Jesus died for you because He loved you and gave you eternal life to experience now.

“But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Rom 5:8)

“To Him who loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood” (Rev 1:5)

“And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us” (Eph 5:2)

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I

live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Gal 2:20)

“By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.” (1Jn 3:16)

“but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.” (1Tim 4:8)

“who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father” (Gal 1:4)

“Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her” (Eph 5:25)

“who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time” (1Tim 2:6)

looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, “that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.” (Tit 2:13-14)

“For when we were still without strength [asthenes], in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” (Rom 5:6)

“For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again, that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living.” (Rom 14:9)

“For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures” (1Cor 15:3-4)

“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him” (Rom 6:8)

“Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.” (Rom 8:34)

“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” (Col 3:3)

“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.” (1Thes 4:14)

“but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.” (Acts 25:19)

Reading: Prov 22-24; Rom 5