¹⁴And ^das Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man ^ebe lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes ^fin him ^gmay have eternal life.⁸

For God So Loved the World

¹⁶“For ^hGod so loved ⁱthe world,⁹ ^jthat he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not ^kperish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For ^lGod did not send his Son into the world ^mto condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸ⁿWhoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not ^obelieved in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹^pAnd this is the judgment: ^qthe light has come into the world, and ^rpeople loved the darkness rather than the light because ^stheir works were evil. ²⁰^tFor everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^ulest his works should be exposed. ²¹But whoever ^vdoes what is true ^wcomes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

John the Baptist Exalts Christ

²²After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and ^xwas baptizing.

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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

8Some interpreters hold that the quotation ends at verse 15
9Or For this is how God loved the world

Cross references

d Num. 21:9
ech. 8:28; 12:32, 34
f[ch. 15:4; 16:33; 1 John 5:12, 20]
gver. 36
h Rom. 5:8; Eph. 2:4; 2 Thess. 2:16; 1 John 3:1; 4:9, 10
iSee ch. 1:29
j Rom. 8:32
kch. 10:28
lch. 5:36, 38; 6:29, 57; 7:29; 8:42; 10:36; 11:42; 17:3; 20:21; Rom. 8:3; 1 John 4:9, 10, 14
mch. 5:45; 8:15; 12:47
nch. 5:24; [Mark 16:16]
oSee 1 John 5:13
p[ch. 9:39]
qSee ch. 1:4, 5, 9
r[Isa. 30:10; Jer. 5:31]
sch. 7:7
t[Job 24:13; Rom. 13:12; Eph. 5:13]
u Eph. 5:11, 13
v 1 John 1:6
w Ps. 139:23, 24
xver. 26; ch. 4:1, 2