The best Bible verses for sacrifice for friends include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for sacrifice for friends, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed."1 Corinthians 5:7
"Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed."1 Corinthians 5:7
"Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that we all possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up."1 Corinthians 8:1
"So then, about eating food sacrificed to idols: We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no God but one."1 Corinthians 8:4
"For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you who have this knowledge eating in an idol’s temple, won’t he be emboldened to eat what has been sacrificed to idols?"1 Corinthians 8:10
"Consider the people of Israel: Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?"1 Corinthians 10:18
"Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?"1 Corinthians 10:19
"No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons."1 Corinthians 10:20
"But if anyone says to you, “This has been offered in sacrifice,” then do not eat it, both for the sake of the man who told you and for conscience’ sake—"1 Corinthians 10:28
"He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world."1 John 2:2
"This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins."1 John 4:10
"you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ."1 Peter 2:5
"there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks."Deuteronomy 12:6
"If an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God."Deuteronomy 15:21
"Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name."Deuteronomy 16:2
Scripture does not change for its audience, but which passages land does. The 15 verses below were chosen because they are accessible to sacrifice for friends without being condescending — plain in their language, concrete in their imagery, and short enough to hold in mind.
The point is not a simplified Bible. It is picking the passages that already speak clearly, so the reader meets the text itself rather than a paraphrase of it.
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The most-cited Bible verses for sacrifice for friends are 1 Corinthians 5:7, 1 Corinthians 8:1, 1 Corinthians 8:4. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to sacrifice for friends across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for sacrifice for friends, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.