John 3:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

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  • Rom 5:8 : 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
  • 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
  • John 3:15 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”
  • John 11:25-26 : 25 Jesus said to her,“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, 26 and the one who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 6:40 : 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • Rom 8:32 : 32 Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all– how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?
  • John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
  • 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love because he loved us first.
  • John 10:28 : 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.
  • 1 Tim 1:15-16 : 15 This saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance:“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”– and I am the worst of them! 16 But here is why I was treated with mercy: so that in me as the worst, Christ Jesus could demonstrate his utmost patience, as an example for those who are going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • John 1:29 : 29 On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said,“Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
  • Rom 5:10 : 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
  • 2 Cor 5:19-21 : 19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making his plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf,“Be reconciled to God!” 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,
  • Gen 22:12 : 12 “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said.“Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
  • Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,
  • Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood
  • Matt 9:13 : 13 Go and learn what this saying means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice.’ For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
  • John 1:18 : 18 No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.
  • John 1:14 : 14 Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory– the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.
  • Titus 3:4 : 4 But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,
  • Mark 12:6 : 6 He had one left, his one dear son. Finally he sent him to them, saying,‘They will respect my son.’
  • Luke 2:14 : 14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among people with whom he is pleased!”

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