John 3:15-31

¹⁵that each man that believeth in him, perish not, but have everlasting life.

¹⁶For God loved so the world or Forsooth God so loved the world, that he gave his one begotten Son, that each man that believeth in him perish not, but have everlasting life.

¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world, that he judge the world, but that the world be saved by him.

¹⁸He that believeth in him, is not deemed, or condemned; but he that believeth not, is now deemed or condemned, for he believeth not in the name of the one or the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the doom, for light came into the world, and men loved more darknesses than light; for their works were evil.

²⁰For each man that doeth evil, hateth the light; and he cometh not to the light, that his works be not reproved.

²¹But he that doeth truth, cometh to the light, that his works be showed, that they be done in God.

²²After these things Jesus came, and his disciples, into the land of Judea, and there he dwelled with them, and baptized.

²³And John was baptizing in Aenon, beside Salim, for many waters were there; and they came, and were baptized or christened.

²⁴And John was not yet sent into prison.

²⁵Therefore a question was made of John’s disciples with the Jews, of the purification, or cleansing.

²⁶And they came to John, and said to him, Master or Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond or over Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witnessing, lo! he baptizeth, and all men come to him.

²⁷John answered, and said, A man may not take anything, but it be given to him from heaven.

²⁸Ye yourselves bear witnessing to me, that I said, I am not Christ, but that I am sent before him.

²⁹He that hath a wife, is the husband or the spouse; but the friend of the spouse that standeth, and heareth him, joyeth with joy, for the voice of the spouse. Therefore in this thing my joy is fulfilled.

³⁰It behooveth him to wax, but me to be made less or to be diminished.

³¹He that came from above, is above all; he that is of the earth, speaketh of the earth; he that cometh from heaven, is above all.