John 3:10-21

New International Version

¹⁰ “You are Israel’s teacher,”^(A) said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? ¹¹ Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know,^(B) and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.^{(C) 12} I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? ¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven^(D) except the one who came from heaven^(E)—the Son of Man.^{[a](F) 14} Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,^(G) so the Son of Man must be lifted up,^{[b](H) 15} that everyone who believes^(I) may have eternal life in him.”^[c](J)

¹⁶ For God so loved^(K) the world that he gave^(L) his one and only Son,^(M) that whoever believes^(N) in him shall not perish but have eternal life.^{(O) 17} For God did not send his Son into the world^(P) to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.^{(Q) 18} Whoever believes in him is not condemned,^(R) but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.^{(S) 19} This is the verdict: Light^(T) has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.^{(U) 20} Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.^{(V) 21} But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.