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John 3:17

WEB

17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

KJV

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

BSB

17For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

FBV

17God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

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Extra References

1 John 4:14

14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.


Luke 19:10

10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”


John 12:47-48

47If anyone listens to my sayings and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.


John 6:57

57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on me will also live because of me.


John 6:40

40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”


1 Timothy 2:5-6

5For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6who gave himself as a ransom for all, the testimony at the proper time,


John 6:29

29Jesus answered them, This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”


John 20:21

21Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”


1 John 2:2

2And he is the atoning sacrifice[+] for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.


John 17:3

3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.