John 3:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ so that whoever believes in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

John 3:15 Cross References

John 3:16

“For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

John 6:40

This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day.”

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not see life but must endure God’s wrath.

John 20:31

But these are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child.

Hebrews 7:25

Consequently, he is able for all time to save those who approach God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

Isaiah 45:22

Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other.

John 6:47

Very truly, I tell you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 1:12

But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,

John 5:24

Very truly, I tell you, anyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and does not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

Luke 19:10

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

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through the faith of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we might be justified by the faith of Christ and not by doing the works of the law, because no one will be justified by the works of the law.

1 John 2:25

And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.

Acts 8:36

As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is to prevent me from being baptized?”

Mark 16:16

The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.

Galatians 2:20

and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 4:3

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Romans 5:21

so that, just as sin reigned in death, so grace might also reign through justification leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Acts 13:41

‘Look, you scoffers! Be amazed and perish, for in your days I am doing a work, a work that you will never believe, even if someone tells you.’ ”

Matthew 18:10

“Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see the face of my Father in heaven.

John 16:33

I have said this to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you face persecution, but take courage: I have conquered the world!”

Numbers 21:9

So Moses made a serpent of bronze and put it upon a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.

Isaiah 11:10

On that day the root of Jesse shall stand as a signal to the peoples; the nations shall inquire of him, and his dwelling shall be glorious.

Matthew 25:46

And these will go away into eternal punishment but the righteous into eternal life.”

John 6:27

Do not work for the food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For it is on him that God the Father has set his seal.”