John 3:13-22

¹³No one has gone up to heaven, but the Son of man came down from heaven.

¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of man must be lifted up,

¹⁵that everyone who trusts in him will have eternal life.

¹⁶For God loved the world, and this is how: he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who trusts in him shouldn't die, but have eternal life.

¹⁷God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

¹⁸Those who trust in him are not condemned, while those who don't trust in him are condemned already because they didn't trust in the one and only Son of God.

¹⁹This is how the decision is made: the light came to the world, but people loved the darkness rather than the light, for their actions were evil.

²⁰All those who do evil hate the light and don't come into the light, because they don't want their actions to be exposed.

²¹But those who do good come into the light, so that what God accomplishes in them can be revealed.”

²²After this Jesus and his disciples went into Judea and spent some time with the people, baptizing them.