16 “For God loved(A) the world in this way:[a] He gave His One and Only(B) Son,(C) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:16 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.

But God proves(A) His own love for us(B) in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

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13 No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life(A) for his friends.

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He saved us(A)
not by works of righteousness that we had done,(B)
but according to His mercy,(C)
through the washing of regeneration(D)
and renewal by the Holy Spirit.(E)

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He has saved us and called us
with a holy calling,(A)
not according to our works,(B)
but according to His own purpose(C) and grace,
which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.

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10 I declare the end from the beginning,
and from long ago what is not yet done,
saying: My plan will take place,
and I will do all My will.(A)

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23 Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used[a] lawless people[b] to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 2:23 Other mss read you have taken
  2. Acts 2:23 Or used the hand of lawless ones

11 We have also received an inheritance[a] in Him, predestined(A) according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 1:11 Or we also were chosen as an inheritance, or we were also made an inheritance

21 For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of the message preached.

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15 This saying is trustworthy(A) and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world(B) to save sinners”(C)—and I am the worst of them.(D)

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who wants everyone(A) to be saved(B) and to come to the knowledge of the truth.(C)

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For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord(A) Jesus Christ,(B) 10 who died for us,(C) so that whether we are awake or asleep,(D) we will live together with Him.(E)

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24 He Himself bore our sins(A)
in His body(B) on the tree,(C)
so that, having died to sins,(D)
we might live for righteousness;(E)
you have been healed by His wounds.(F)[a]

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