John 3:30 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³⁰ He [i.e., Jesus] must increase [in importance and influence], while I must decrease.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease. [He must grow more prominent; I must grow less so.] [Isa. 9:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease.

Common English Bible

³⁰ He must increase and I must decrease.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ He must increase, while I must decrease.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁰ He must increase, but I must decrease.

John 3:30 Cross References

John 3:29

The one who has the bride is the groom; but the best man, who stands up with him and listens to him [take his vows], is very happy when he hears him speak. So, [now] my joy is complete [i.e. over hearing about Jesus’ ministry].

John 3:31

The One who comes from above [i.e., Jesus] ranks over all [others]; but the one who is out of the earth [i.e., of human origin] is [merely] an earthly [being] and he speaks in earthly [ways]. [But] the One who comes from heaven [i.e., Jesus] ranks over all [others].

1 Corinthians 3:5

After all, who is Apollos? And who is Paul? They are [only] servants through whom you believed [in Christ], with each one doing what the Lord gave him to do.

Colossians 1:18

And He is the head of the [spiritual] body, the church. He is [its] source, the firstborn One from the dead [i.e., the first one to return to life, never to die again], so that He could rank first [in importance] over all things.

Revelation 11:15

Then the seventh angel sounded its trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord [i.e., God] and of His Christ, and He will rule forever and ever.”