John 3:12-21

English Standard Version

¹² If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ^13 (A)No one has ^(B)ascended into heaven except ^(C)he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.^{[a] 14} And ^(D)as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man ^(E)be lifted up, ¹⁵ that whoever believes ^(F)in him ^(G)may have eternal life.^[b]

For God So Loved the World

¹⁶ “For ^(H)God so loved ^(I)the world,^{[c] (J)}that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not ^(K)perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For ^(L)God did not send his Son into the world ^(M)to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ^18 (N)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not ^(O)believed in the name of the only Son of God. ^19 (P)And this is the judgment: ^(Q)the light has come into the world, and ^(R)people loved the darkness rather than the light because ^(S)their works were evil. ^20 (T)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^(U)lest his works should be exposed. ²¹ But whoever ^(V)does what is true ^(W)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”