John 3:14-21
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,(A) 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.[a](B)
16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.(C)
17 “Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him.(D) 18 Those who believe in him are not condemned, but those who do not believe are condemned already because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.(E) 19 And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.(F) 20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(G) 21 But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”[b](H)
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John 3:14-21
Contemporary English Version
14 (A) And the Son of Man must be lifted up, just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert.[a] 15 Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life.
16 God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them! 18 No one who has faith in God's Son will be condemned. But everyone who doesn't have faith in him has already been condemned for not having faith in God's only Son.
19 The light has come into the world, and people who do evil things are judged guilty because they love the dark more than the light. 20 People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done. 21 But everyone who lives by the truth will come to the light, because they want others to know that God is really the one doing what they do.
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- 3.14 just as the metal snake was lifted up by Moses in the desert: When the Lord punished the people of Israel by sending snakes to bite them, he told Moses to hold a metal snake up on a pole. Everyone who looked at the snake was cured of the snake bites (see Numbers 21.4-9).
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