15 so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.”[a]

God’s Love for the World

16 For 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. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge[b] the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:15 Some interpreters and Bible translations extend the quotation of Jesus’ words through v. 21
  2. John 3:17 Or “he should condemn”