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Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb, and be born?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jesus answered, "Most certainly I tell you, unless one is born of water and spirit, he can't enter into the Kingdom of God! <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don't know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and don't understand these things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>No one has ascended into heaven, but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.</p> <a name="16" id="16"></a><p class="hdg">For God So Loved<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../genesis/22.htm">Genesis 22:1-10</a>; <a href="../romans/5.htm#6">Romans 5:6-11</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn't believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."</p> <p class="hdg">John's Testimony Concerning Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After these things, Jesus came with his disciples into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For John was not yet thrown into prison.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They came to John, and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, the same baptizes, and everyone is coming to him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You yourselves testify that I said, 'I am not the Christ,' but, 'I have been sent before him.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This, my joy, therefore is made full. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He must increase, but I must decrease.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the Earth belongs to the Earth, and speaks of the Earth. He who comes from heaven is above all. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. 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