John 3:17 “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but…”

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

World English Bible

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

American Standard Version

For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

Geneva Bible 1599

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

Darby Translation

For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

Young's Literal Translation

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

Bible in Basic English

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

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Cross references

“God”

John 5:45 John 8:15 John 8:16 John 12:47 John 12:48 Luke 9:56

John 5:45 · BSB

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.

John 8:15 · BSB

You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.

John 8:16 · BSB

But even if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone; I am with the Father who sent Me.

John 12:47 · BSB

As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 12:48 · BSB

There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Luke 9:56 · BSB

And He and His disciples went on to another village.

“but”

1 John 4:14 Luke 19:10 John 6:40 1 John 2:2 John 1:29 Zechariah 9:9

1 John 4:14 · BSB

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

Luke 19:10 · BSB

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

John 6:40 · BSB

For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

1 John 2:2 · BSB

He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

John 1:29 · BSB

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Zechariah 9:9 · BSB

Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Also

John 6:57 John 6:29 John 20:21 John 17:3 John 11:42 John 8:42

John 6:57 · BSB

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

John 6:29 · BSB

Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

John 20:21 · BSB

Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”

John 17:3 · BSB

Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

John 11:42 · BSB

I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.”

John 8:42 · BSB

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on My own, but He sent Me.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

18Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.

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