¹⁴ A God-fearing woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, was listening. The Lord opened her heart to respond to what Paul was saying.^(A)

³¹ They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.”^(A)

⁸ For you are saved by grace^(A) through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift— ⁹ not from works, so that no one can boast.

⁹ The true light^(A) that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.^[a](B)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was created^(C) through him, and yet the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. ¹² But to all who did receive^(D) him,^(E) he gave them the right^(F) to be^[b] children^(G) of God,^(H) to those who believe^(I) in his name,^{(J) 13} who were born,^(K) not of natural descent,^[c] or of the will^(L) of the flesh,^(M) or of the will of man,^[d] but of God.^(N)

¹⁶ For God loved^(A) the world in this way:^[a] He gave^[b] his one and only^(B) Son,^(C) so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.^{(D) 17} For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn^(E) the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Anyone who believes in him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned,^(F) because he has not believed in the name^(G) of the one and only Son^(H) of God. ¹⁹ This is the judgment: The light^(I) has come into the world,^(J) and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates^(K) the light and avoids it,^[c] so that his deeds^(L) may not be exposed. ²¹ But anyone who lives by^[d] the truth comes to the light, so that his works^(M) may be shown to be accomplished by God.”