John 3:6-31

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

⁸The wind blows where it wills, and you hear its sound, but you do not know from where it comes and where it goes. So is everyone who has been born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?

¹¹Most assuredly I say to you, that which We know, We speak, and that which We have seen, We bear witness to, and you do not receive Our witness.

¹²If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³And no one has gone up into heaven except He who came down out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

¹⁴And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

¹⁵that everyone who believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

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

¹⁸“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

²⁰For everyone that does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works be exposed.

²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

²²After these things Jesus, along with His disciples, came into the land of Judea, and there He was staying with them and He was baptizing.

²³Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near Salem, because there was much water there. And they came and were baptized.

²⁴(For John was not yet cast into prison).

²⁵Then there came to be a dispute between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

²⁶And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified—behold, this Man is baptizing, and all men are coming to Him!”

²⁷John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves bear witness that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’

²⁹He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the voice of the bridegroom. Therefore my joy has been fulfilled.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He who comes from above is above all; he who is from the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.