Good News Translation GNT
New International Version NIV
14 As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up,
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Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
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that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
16 For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.
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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.
18 Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.
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Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 This is how the judgment works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.
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This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up.
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Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
21 But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.
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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.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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