John 3:15-30

¹⁵That whosoeuer beleeueth in him, shoulde not perish, but haue eternall life.

¹⁶For God so loued the worlde, that hee hath giuen his onely begotten Sonne, that whosoeuer beleeueth in him, should not perish, but haue euerlasting life.

¹⁷For God sent not his Sonne into the world, that he should condemne the world, but that the world through him might be saued.

¹⁸Hee that beleeueth in him, is not condemned: but hee that beleeueth not, is condemned already, because he hath not beleeued in the Name of that onely begotten Sonne of God.

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that that light came into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then that light, because their deedes were euill.

²⁰For euery man that euill doeth, hateth the light, neither commeth to light, least his deedes should be reprooued.

²¹But he that doeth trueth, commeth to the light, that his deedes might bee made manifest, that they are wrought according to God.

²²After these things, came Iesus and his disciples into the lande of Iudea, and there taried with them, and baptized.

²³And Iohn also baptized in Enon besides Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.

²⁴For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.

²⁵Then there arose a question betweene Iohns disciples and the Iewes, about purifying.

²⁶And they came vnto Iohn, and saide vnto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Iorden, to whom thou barest witnesse, behold, he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

²⁷Iohn answered, and saide, A man can receiue nothing, except it be giuen him from heauen.

²⁸Yee your selues are my witnesses, that I sayde, I am not that Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that hath the bride, is the bridegrome: but the friend of the bridegrome which standeth and heareth him, reioyceth greatly, because of the bridegromes voyce. This my ioy therefore is fulfilled.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.