¹⁴“Just as Moses^ag lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^ah so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵so that everyone who believes in him may^D have eternal life.^ai ¹⁶For God loved^aj the world in this way:^E He gave^F his one and only^ak Son,^al so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.^am ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn^an the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,^ao because he has not believed in the name^ap of the one and only Son^aq of God. ¹⁹This is the judgment: The light^ar has come into the world,^as and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰For everyone who does evil hates^at the light and avoids it,^G so that his deeds^au may not be exposed. ²¹But anyone who lives by^H the truth comes to the light, so that his works^av may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST

²²After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent time with them and baptized.

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John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Footnotes

DOther add not perish, but
EOr this much
FOr For in this way God loved the world, and so he gave, or For God so loved the world that he gave
G and does not come to the light
H who does

Cross references

ag Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2
ah Nm 21:4–9
ai Mk 10:17; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48
aj Jn 12:43; 1Co 13:1; Gl 2:20; Col 1:13; 3:12; 1Th 1:4; 2Th 2:13,16; 1Jn 4:7–12; Jd 1
ak 1Jn 4:9
al Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
am Jn 12:25; Rm 5:8; 1Jn 3:16; 4:9–10
an Jn 8:11
ao Mt 12:41; Mk 16:16
ap Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23
aq Jn 5:19
ar Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46
as Jn 18:37; 1Jn 2:8
at Lk 6:27; 19:14
au Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26
av Jn 5:36