John 3:9-21

English Standard Version

⁹Nicodemus said to him, ^(A)“How can these things be?” ¹⁰Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel ^(B)and yet you do not understand these things? ¹¹Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(C)we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but ^(D)you^[a] do not receive our testimony. ¹²If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? ¹³^(E)No one has ^(F)ascended into heaven except ^(G)he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.^[b] ¹⁴And ^(H)as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man ^(I)be lifted up, ¹⁵that whoever believes ^(J)in him ^(K)may have eternal life.^[c]

For God So Loved the World

¹⁶“For ^(L)God so loved ^(M)the world,^[d] ^(N)that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not ^(O)perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷For ^(P)God did not send his Son into the world ^(Q)to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. ¹⁸^(R)Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not ^(S)believed in the name of the only Son of God. ¹⁹^(T)And this is the judgment: ^(U)the light has come into the world, and ^(V)people loved the darkness rather than the light because ^(W)their works were evil. ²⁰^(X)For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, ^(Y)lest his works should be exposed. ²¹But whoever ^(Z)does what is true ^(AA)comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”