¹⁶ “For this is how God loved the world: He gave^[a] his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

⁸ God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God.

⁸ But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.