Book of Common Prayer

¹¹ Truly, truly, I say to you that we are speaking what we know, and we are testifying what we have seen, and you^[a] people are not receiving our testimony. ¹² If I told you people earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³ And no one has gone up into heaven except the One having come down from heaven— the Son of Man. ¹⁴ And just as Moses lifted-up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up ¹⁵ in order that everyone putting-faith in Him may have^[b] eternal life.

God Sent His Son Into The World That All Believing In Him May Have Eternal Life

¹⁶ “For^[c] God so^[d] loved the world that He gave His only-born Son, in order that everyone believing in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send-forth the Son into the world in order that He might judge^[e] the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁷ For it is better to be suffering while doing-good, if the will of God should [so] will it, than while doing-evil.

Because Christ Himself Suffered To Bring Us To God, And Is Now Glorified By God

¹⁸ Because Christ also suffered once-for-all for sins— a righteous One for unrighteous ones— in order that He might bring you to God, having been put-to-death in the flesh but made-alive^[a] by the Spirit^[b],

¹⁹ ... by Whom^[c] also^[d] having gone, He proclaimed^[e] to the spirits^[f] in prison— ²⁰ ones having disobeyed formerly when the patience of God was waiting in the days of Noah while an ark was being prepared,

... in which a few (that is, eight souls) were brought-safely through the water,

²¹ ... which^[g] also as to you a corresponding-thing^[h] now saves— baptism (not a putting-off ^[i] of dirt from the flesh, but an appeal^[j] to God for^[k] a good conscience) through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

²² ... Who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers having been subjected to Him.