John 3:16

Good News Translation (US Version)

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

Cross References

Romans 5:8

But God has shown us how much he loves us—it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!

John 3:15

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

Romans 8:32

Certainly not God, who did not even keep back his own Son, but offered him for us all! He gave us his Son—will he not also freely give us all things?

John 6:40

For what my Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them to life on the last day.”

John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever disobeys the Son will not have life, but will remain under God's punishment.

1 John 4:19

We love because God first loved us.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, and they shall never die. No one can snatch them away from me.

Romans 5:10

We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

2 Thessalonians 2:16

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and in his grace gave us unfailing courage and a firm hope,

Ephesians 2:4

But God's mercy is so abundant, and his love for us is so great,

Matthew 9:13

Go and find out what is meant by the scripture that says: ‘It is kindness that I want, not animal sacrifices.’ I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts.”

Revelation 1:5

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first to be raised from death and who is also the ruler of the kings of the world. He loves us, and by his sacrificial death he has freed us from our sins

John 1:14

The Word became a human being and, full of grace and truth, lived among us. We saw his glory, the glory which he received as the Father's only Son.

Genesis 22:12

“Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him,” he said. “Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him.”

Titus 3:4

But when the kindness and love of God our Savior was revealed,

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Mark 12:6

The only one left to send was the man's own dear son. Last of all, then, he sent his son to the tenants. ‘I am sure they will respect my son,’ he said.

Luke 2:14

“Glory to God in the highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom he is pleased!”

Genesis 22:2

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.”

Isaiah 9:6

A child is born to us! A son is given to us! And he will be our ruler. He will be called, “Wonderful Counselor,” “Mighty God,” “Eternal Father,” “Prince of Peace.”

John 3:18

Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son.

Hebrews 2:9

But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, so that through God's grace he should die for everyone. We see him now crowned with glory and honor because of the death he suffered.

1 John 3:1

See how much the Father has loved us! His love is so great that we are called God's children—and so, in fact, we are. This is why the world does not know us: it has not known God.