¹⁴And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^d thus it is necessary that the Son of Man be lifted up, ¹⁵so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.”^e

God’s Love for the World

¹⁶For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge^f the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him. ¹⁸The one who believes in him is not judged,^g but the one who does not believe has already been judged,^h because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. ¹⁹And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. ²⁰For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed. ²¹But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.

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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

dAn allusion to Num 21:5–9
eSome interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of Jesus’ words through v. 21
fOr “he should condemn”
gOr “condemned”
hOr “been condemned”