John 3:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

John 3:17 Cross References

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on an ass, on a colt the foal of an ass.

Matthew 1:23

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanu-el” (which means, God with us).

Matthew 18:10

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you that in heaven their angels always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 18:11

Luke 19:10

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

Luke 9:56

And they went on to another village.

John 1:29

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

John 10:36

do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 11:42

I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me.”

John 17:18

As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.

John 17:21

that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 17:23

I in them and thou in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.

John 17:25

O righteous Father, the world has not known thee, but I have known thee; and these know that thou hast sent me.

John 17:3

And this is eternal life, that they know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.

John 17:8

for I have given them the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from thee; and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 20:21

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

John 3:34

For he whom God has sent utters the words of God, for it is not by measure that he gives the Spirit;

John 5:36

But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has granted me to accomplish, these very works which I am doing, bear me witness that the Father has sent me.

John 5:38

and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe him whom he has sent.

John 5:45

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

John 6:29

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

John 6:38

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

John 6:40

For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

John 6:57

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.

John 7:29

I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”

John 8:11

She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again.”

John 8:42

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I proceeded and came forth from God; I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

1 John 2:2

and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 4:14

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the Savior of the world.