John 3:17

Contemporary English Version 1995

God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them!

Cross References

1 John 4:14

God sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. We saw his Son and are now telling others about him.

Luke 19:10

The Son of Man came to look for and to save people who are lost.”

John 6:57

The living Father sent me, and I have life because of him. Now everyone who eats my flesh will live because of me.

John 6:40

My Father wants everyone who sees the Son to have faith in him and to have eternal life. Then I will raise them to life on the last day.

John 6:29

Jesus answered, “God wants you to have faith in the one he sent.”

John 20:21

After Jesus had greeted them again, he said, “I am sending you, just as the Father has sent me.”

1 John 2:2

Christ is the sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world's people.

John 17:3

Eternal life is to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, the one you sent.

John 11:42

I know that you always answer my prayers. But I said this, so the people here would believe you sent me.”

John 7:29

But I know the one who sent me, because I came from him.”

John 5:45

Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you.

Zechariah 9:9

Everyone in Jerusalem, celebrate and shout! Your king has won a victory, and he is coming to you. He is humble and rides on a donkey; he comes on the colt of a donkey.

John 8:42

Jesus answered: If God were your Father, you would love me, because I came from God and now I am here. He sent me. I did not come on my own.

John 1:29

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

John 17:8

I told my followers what you told me, and they accepted it. They know I came from you, and they believe you are the one who sent me.

John 10:36

So why do you accuse me of a terrible sin for saying that I am the Son of God? After all, it is the Father who prepared me for this work. He is also the one who sent me into the world.

John 5:36

But something more important than John speaks for me. I mean the things that the Father has given me to do! All of these speak for me and prove that the Father sent me.

John 17:21

I want all of them to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me.

John 5:38

You have not believed his message, because you refused to have faith in the one he sent.

Matthew 1:23

“A virgin will have a baby boy, and he will be called Immanuel,” which means “God is with us.”

Matthew 18:10

Don't be cruel to any of these little ones! I promise you their angels are always with my Father in heaven.

Luke 9:56

Then they all went on to another village.

John 3:34

The Son was sent to speak God's message, and he has been given the full power of God's Spirit.

John 6:38

I didn't come from heaven to do what I want! I came to do what the Father wants me to do. He sent me,

John 8:11

“No sir,” the woman answered. Then Jesus told her, “I am not going to accuse you either. You may go now, but don't sin anymore.”

John 17:18

I am sending them into the world, just as you sent me.

John 17:23

I am one with them, and you are one with me, so they may become completely one. Then this world's people will know that you sent me. They will know that you love my followers as much as you love me.

John 17:25

Good Father, the people of this world don't know you. But I know you, and my followers know that you sent me.