John 3:17

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For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

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  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who eats me will live because of me.
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered them, 'This is the work of God: that you believe in the one he has sent.'
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father: that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.
  • John 5:45 : 45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 "If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge them. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 The one who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge: The word I have spoken will judge them on the last day.
  • John 10:36 : 36 what about the one whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, ‘I am God’s Son’?
  • John 11:42 : 42 'I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.'
  • John 20:21 : 21 Jesus said to them again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I am also sending you.'
  • 1 Tim 2:5-6 : 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
  • John 8:15-16 : 15 You judge by human standards; I judge no one. 16 And even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent me.
  • Isa 45:21-23 : 21 Declare and present your case; let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. 22 Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I have sworn; my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow, by me every tongue will swear.
  • Isa 49:6-7 : 6 He says, 'It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back the preserved ones of Israel. I will also make you a light to the nations so that you may bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.' 7 This is what the Lord, the Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, says: To the one despised and abhorred by the nations, to the servant of rulers: Kings will see you and stand to attention, and princes will bow down because of the Lord, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. When you make his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After his suffering, he will see the result and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout aloud, Daughter Jerusalem! Look, your king is coming to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, 'Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!'
  • John 5:36 : 36 But I have testimony greater than John's: the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
  • John 5:38 : 38 Nor do you have His word abiding in you, because you do not believe the one He sent.
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I did not come on my own, 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 you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.
  • Luke 2:10-11 : 10 But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that is for all the people. 11 Today, in the city of David, a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • John 17:3 : 3 Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
  • John 17:8 : 8 For I gave them the words You gave Me, and they received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.
  • John 17:21 : 21 That all of them may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You have sent Me.
  • Luke 9:56 : 56 Then they went on to another village.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 'Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Emmanuel' (which means, 'God with us').

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  • John 3:15-16
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    15so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

  • John 3:18-19
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    18Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is already condemned, because they have not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

    19This is the verdict: The light has come into the world, but people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

  • John 12:46-47
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    46I have come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

    47"If anyone hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge them. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

  • 1 John 4:9-10
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    9By this, the love of God was revealed among us: that God sent His only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

    10In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  • 1 John 4:14
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    14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

  • John 3:34-36
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    34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without measure.

    35The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

    36The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. But the one who disobeys the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

  • Matt 18:11
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    11For the Son of Man came to save what was lost.

  • Rom 3:6
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    6Certainly not! If that were so, how could God judge the world?

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1See how great a love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and this is what we are! The world does not know us because it did not know Him.

  • 1 John 2:2
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    2He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

  • Luke 19:10
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    10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost.

  • John 5:34
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    34But I do not accept testimony from a man; rather, I say these things so that you may be saved.

  • Rom 5:8
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    8But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

  • 1 Thess 5:9
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    9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Titus 3:4-6
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    4But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

    5He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

    6This Spirit He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,

  • Gal 1:4
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    4who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

  • John 5:22-24
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    22'For the Father judges no one, but He has entrusted all judgment to the Son.'

    23'So that everyone may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.'

    24Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes in the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life.

  • John 1:9-10
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    9The true Light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.

    10He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

  • Luke 1:77
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    77to give His people knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins.

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    15Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in them.

  • John 12:31
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    31Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be thrown out.

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law could not do, weakened as it was by the flesh, God did. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as a sin offering, He condemned sin in the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 5:19
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    19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

  • John 17:3
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    3Now this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  • Matt 7:1
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    1Do not judge, so that you will not be judged.

  • John 1:18
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    18No one has ever seen God; the one and only Son, who is in the closest relationship with the Father, has made Him known.

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21For since in God’s wisdom the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

  • John 17:18
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    18As You sent Me into the world, I have also sent them into the world.

  • 1 John 3:21
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    21Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God.

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  • Rom 3:24
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    24And all are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

  • 1 Tim 2:4
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    4who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

  • John 1:7
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    7He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that through him everyone might believe.

  • Rom 8:1
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    1So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

  • John 17:16
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    16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

  • Luke 6:37
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    37Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

  • John 9:39
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    39Jesus said, 'For judgment I came into this world, so that those who are blind may see and those who see may become blind.'

  • John 3:13
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    13No one has ascended into heaven except the One who descended from heaven—the Son of Man.

  • John 17:14
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    14I have given them Your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.