John 3:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.

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  • 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
  • John 6:57 : 57 As the living Father has sent me, and I live by the Father: so he who eats me, even he shall live by me.
  • Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
  • John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered and said to them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.
  • John 6:40 : 40 And this is the will of him who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
  • John 12:47-48 : 47 And if anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words has that which judges him: the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
  • John 20:21 : 21 Then Jesus said to them again, Peace be to you! As my Father has sent me, I also send you.
  • 1 Tim 2:5-6 : 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and humanity, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave Himself as a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  • John 8:15-16 : 15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.
  • John 10:36 : 36 Do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, You blaspheme, because I said, I am the Son of God?
  • John 11:42 : 42 And I knew that you always hear me: but because of the people who stand by, I said it, that they may believe that you sent me.
  • Isa 45:21-23 : 21 Declare and bring them near; indeed, let them take counsel together: who has declared this from ancient times? who has told it from that time? have not I, the LORD? and there is no other God besides Me; a just God and a Savior; there is none besides Me. 22 Look to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is no other. 23 I have sworn by Myself, the word has gone out of My mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, that to Me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
  • Isa 49:6-7 : 6 And he said, It is a light thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you as a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth. 7 Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to the servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD who is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose you.
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he has put him to grief: when you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge, my righteous servant shall justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will 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 he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore 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, your King comes to you: he is just, and endowed with salvation; lowly, and riding upon a donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
  • Matt 18:10 : 10 Take heed that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I say to you, That in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
  • Luke 2:10-11 : 10 And the angel said to them, Do not fear, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy, which will be to all people. 11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
  • John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said to them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I came out and came from God; neither did I come of myself, but he sent me.
  • John 7:29 : 29 But I know him, for I am from him, and he sent me.
  • 1 John 2:2 : 2 And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
  • John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life, that they might know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.
  • John 17:8 : 8 For I have given to them the words which you gave me; and they have received them, and have surely known that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 17:21 : 21 That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that you have sent me.
  • Luke 9:56 : 56 For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them. And they went to another village.
  • Matt 1:23 : 23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

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  • John 3:15-16
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    15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

    16For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

  • John 3:18-19
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    18He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

    19This is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

  • John 12:46-47
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    46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me should not remain in darkness.

    47And if anyone hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

  • 1 John 4:9-10
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    9In this the love of God was manifested toward us, because God sent His only begotten Son into the world, 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 propitiation for our sins.

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

  • John 3:34-36
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    34For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure to him.

    35The Father loves the Son and has given all things into his hand.

    36He who believes in the Son has everlasting life, and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.

  • Matt 18:11
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    11For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

  • Rom 3:6
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    6Certainly not: for then how will God judge the world?

  • 1 John 3:1
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    1Behold, what kind of love the Father has given us, that we should be called the children of God: therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know him.

  • 1 John 2:2
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    2And he is the atonement for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

  • Luke 19:10
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    10For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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

  • 1 Thess 5:9
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    9For God has not appointed us to 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 toward man appeared,

    5Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,

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

  • Gal 1:4
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    4Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,

  • John 1:9-10
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    9That was the true Light, which gives light to every man coming into the world.

    10He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him.

  • Luke 1:77
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    77To give knowledge of salvation to His people by the remission of their sins,

  • 1 John 2:15
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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 him.

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

  • Rom 8:3
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    3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, to condemn sin in the flesh.

  • 2 Cor 5:19
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    19That is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their sins against them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

  • John 17:3
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    3And this is eternal life, that they might 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 seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

  • 1 Cor 1:21
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    21For since in the wisdom of God the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of preaching to save those who believe.

  • John 17:18
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    18As you have sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

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

  • 1 John 5:12
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    12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  • Rom 3:24
    68%

    24being 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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    7This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe.

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

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

  • Luke 6:37
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    37Judge not, and you shall not be judged: condemn not, and you shall not be condemned: forgive, and you shall be forgiven:

  • John 9:39
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    39And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see; and that those who see might be made blind.

  • John 3:13
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    13No man has ascended to heaven but he who came down from heaven, even the Son of Man who is in heaven.

  • 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, even as I am not of the world.