³ Jesus responded and said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone ^(A)is born ^[a]again he cannot see ^(B)the kingdom of God.”

⁴ Nicodemus *said to Him, “How can a person be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?” ⁵ Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless someone is born of ^(C)water and the Spirit, he cannot enter ^(D)the kingdom of God. ^6 (E)That which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁴ And just as ^(A)Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must ^(B)the Son of Man ^(C)be lifted up, ¹⁵ so that everyone who ^[a]believes will ^(D)have eternal life in Him.

¹⁶ “For God so ^(E)loved the world, that He ^(F)gave His ^(G)only Son, so that everyone who ^(H)believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God ^(I)did not send the Son into the world ^(J)to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. ^18 (K)The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of ^(L)the only Son of God. ¹⁹ And this is the judgment, that ^(M)the Light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the Light; for ^(N)their deeds were evil. ^20 (O)For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds will not be exposed. ²¹ But the one who ^(P)practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds will be revealed ^[b]as having been performed in God.”