John 3:17

American Standard Version (1901)

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

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  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he that eateth me, he also shall live because of me.
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father, that every one that beholdeth the Son, and believeth on him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • John 5:45 : 45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, [even] Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.
  • John 10:36 : 36 say ye of him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am [the] Son of God?
  • John 11:42 : 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
  • John 20:21 : 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
  • 1 Tim 2:5-6 : 5 For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, [himself] man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a ransom for all; the testimony [to be borne] in its own times;
  • John 8:15-16 : 15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. 16 Yea and if I judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
  • Isa 45:21-23 : 21 Declare ye, and bring [it] forth; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath showed this from ancient time? who hath declared it of old? have not I, Jehovah? and there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Saviour; there is none besides me. 22 Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else. 23 By myself have I sworn, the word is gone forth from my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
  • Isa 49:6-7 : 6 yea, he saith, It is too light a thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. 7 Thus saith Jehovah, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers: Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Jehovah that is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who hath chosen thee.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and [ made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy king cometh unto thee; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, even upon a colt the foal of an ass.
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world!
  • John 5:36 : 36 But the witness which I have is greater than [that of] John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
  • John 5:38 : 38 And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 7:29 : 29 I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 See that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 2:10-11 : 10 And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people: 11 for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
  • John 17:8 : 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
  • John 17:21 : 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
  • Luke 9:56 : 56 And they went to another village.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, And they shall call his name Immanuel; which is, being interpreted, God with us.

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  • John 3:18-19
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    18He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God.

    19And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

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    46I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.

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    14And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.

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    34For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.

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    36He that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeyeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.

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    6God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?

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    10For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

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    34But the witness which I receive is not from man: howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God commendeth his own love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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    9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    4But when the kindness of God our Saviour, and his love toward man, appeared,

    5not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

    6which he poured out upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

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    22For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgment unto the Son;

    23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.

    24Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life.

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    15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

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    31Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

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    19to wit, that God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not reckoning unto them their trespasses, and having committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

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    3And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.

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    1Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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    18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him] .

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    21For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

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    18As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.

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    21Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;

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    12He that hath the Son hath the life; he that hath not the Son of God hath not the life.

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    24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

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    4who would have all men to be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth.

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    7The same came for witness, that he might bear witness of the light, that all might believe through him.

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    1There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

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    16They are not of the world even as I am not of the world.

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    37And judge not, and ye shall not be judged: and condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: release, and ye shall be released:

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    13And no one hath ascended into heaven, but he that descended out of heaven, [even] the Son of man, who is in heaven.

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    14I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.