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11 Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!
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Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
12 If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
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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 And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.
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No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man.
14 And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man 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 will have eternal life."
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that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
16 For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will 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 in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should 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 The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only 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 And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because 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 practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds 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 the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done 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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