John 3:13-22

¹³No one has gone up into Heaven except the One who came down out of Heaven —the Son of the Man, who is in Heaven.

¹⁴Also, just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, just so the Son of the Man must be lifted up,

¹⁵so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.

¹⁶Because God loved the world so much that He gave His only begotten Son, so that everyone who believes into Him should not be wasted, but should have eternal life.

¹⁷For God did not send His Son into the world in order to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.

¹⁸The one believing into Him is not condemned, but the one not believing has already been condemned, because he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹“Now this is the basis for the condemning, that the Light has come into the world, but the people loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were malignant.

²⁰For whoever practices evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

²¹But whoever does the truth comes to the Light so that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they are done in God.”

²²After these things Jesus, with His disciples, went into the Judean countryside, and there He spent time with them and baptized.