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John 3:11–21

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11Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,n and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.o 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? 13No one has ever gone into heavenp except the one who came from heavenq—the Son of Man.er 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,s so the Son of Man must be lifted up,ft 15that everyone who believesu may have eternal life in him.”gv

16For God so lovedw the world that he gavex his one and only Son,y that whoever believesz in him shall not perish but have eternal life.a 17For God did not send his Son into the worldb to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.c 18Whoever believes in him is not condemned,d but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.e 19This is the verdict: Lightf has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.g 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.h 21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of 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

  1. eSome manuscripts Man, who is in heaven
  2. fThe Greek for lifted up also means exalted.
  3. gSome interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.

Cross references

  1. nJn 1:18; 7:16, 17
  2. over 32
  3. pPr 30:4; Ac 2:34; Eph 4:8–10
  4. qver 31; Jn 6:38, 42; Heb 4:14; 9:24
  5. rSee Mt 8:20
  6. sNu 21:8, 9
  7. tSee Jn 12:32
  8. uver 16, 36; Ge 15:6; Nu 14:11; Mt 27:42; Mk 1:15; Jn 1:7, 12; 2:23; 5:24; 7:38; 20:29; Ac 13:39; 16:31; Ro 3:22; 10:9, 10; 1 Jn 5:1, 5, 10
  9. vver 16, 36; See Mt 25:46; Jn 20:31
  10. wRo 5:8; Eph 2:4; 1 Jn 4:9, 10
  11. xIsa 9:6; Ro 8:32
  12. yGe 22:12; Jn 1:18
  13. zSee ver 15
  14. aver 36; Jn 6:29, 40; 11:25, 26
  15. bJn 6:29, 57; 10:36; 11:42; 17:8, 21; 20:21
  16. cIsa 53:11; See Mt 1:21; See Lk 2:11; 19:10; Jn 1:29; 12:47; See Ro 11:14; 1 Ti 1:15; 2:5, 6; 1 Jn 2:2; 3:5
  17. dJn 5:24
  18. eJn 1:18; 1 Jn 4:9
  19. fSee Jn 1:4
  20. gPs 52:3; Jn 7:7
  21. hEph 5:11, 13

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