John 3:15
13 No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.
14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
- KJV
- That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- WEB
- that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
- ASV
- that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.
- DARBY
- that every one who believes on him may [not perish, but] have life eternal.
- BLB
- so that everyone believing in Him may have eternal life.
- ÅB
- for at hver den som tror på ham, skal ha evig liv.
- OTB
- for at hver den som tror, skal ha evig liv ved ham.
- B1930
- forat hver den som tror på ham, skal ha evig liv.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Read in contextJohn 6:40
For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Read in context1 John 5:11–13
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
Read in contextJohn 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
Read in contextJohn 12:44–46
Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.
Read in context1 John 5:1
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
Read in contextRomans 10:9–14
that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Read in context1 John 5:20
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
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