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16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, 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 the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
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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 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
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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 the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were 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 "For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
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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 he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in 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.
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