¹⁴Just as Moses ^alifted up the snake in the wilderness, ^bso the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵so that everyone who believes in Him will ^chave eternal life. ^d

¹⁶“For God loved ^ethe world ^•in this way: ^fHe gave His ^•One and Only ^gSon, ^hso that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life. ⁱ¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn ^jthe world, but that the world might be saved through Him. ¹⁸Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, ^kbecause he has not believed in the name ^lof the One and Only Son ^mof God.

¹⁹“This, then, is the judgment: The light ⁿhas come into the world, ^oand people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰For everyone who practices wicked things hates ^pthe light and avoids it, ^qso that his deeds ^rmay not be exposed. ²¹But anyone who lives by ^sthe truth comes to the light, so that his works ^tmay be shown to be accomplished by God.” ^u

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

c3:15 Other add not perish, but
•The Greek word houtos, commonly translated in Jn 3:16 as “so” or “so much,” occurs over 200 times in the NT. Almost without exception it is an adverb of manner, not degree (for example, see Mt 1:18). It only means “so much” when modifying an adjective (see Gal 3:3; Rev 16:18). Manner seems primarily in view in Jn 3:16, which explains the HCSB’s rendering.
f3:16 The Gk word houtos, commonly translated in Jn 3:16 as “so” or “so much” occurs over 200 times in the NT. Almost without exception it is an adverb of manner, not degree (for example, see Mt 1:18). It only means “so much” when modifying an adjective (see Gl 3:3; Rv 16:18). Manner seems primarily in view in Jn 3:16, which explains the HCSB‘s rendering.
•Or one of a kind, or incomparable, or only begotten; the Greek word can refer to someone’s only child as in Lk 7:12; 8:42; 9:38. It can also refer to someone’s special child as in Heb 11:17.
q3:20 and does not come to the light
s3:21 who does
u3:21 It is possible that Jesus’ words end at v. 15. Ancient Gk did not have quotation marks.

Cross references

a3:14 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2
b3:14 Nm 21:4–9
d3:15 Mk 10:17; Jn 12:25; Ac 13:48
e3:16 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
g3:16 1Jn 4:9
h3:16 Jn 5:19; Heb 1:2
i3:16 Jn 12:25; Rm 5:8; 1Jn 3:16; 4:9–10
j3:17 Jn 8:11
k3:18 Mt 12:41; Mk 16:16
l3:18 Jn 10:25; 1Jn 3:23
m3:18 Jn 5:19
n3:19 Ps 36:9; Jn 12:46
o3:19 Jn 18:37; 1Jn 2:8
p3:20 Lk 6:27; 19:14
r3:20 Mk 14:6; Gl 3:10; Jms 2:14–26
t3:21 Jn 5:36