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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 3 GWT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/3.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/3-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GWT</a> > John 3</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/2.htm" title="John 2">◄</a> John 3 <a href="../john/4.htm" title="John 4">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">GOD'S WORD® Translation</div><div class="chap"><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Nicodemus was a Pharisee and a member of the Jewish council. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He came to Jesus one night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that God has sent you as a teacher. No one can perform the miracles you perform unless God is with him." <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus replied to Nicodemus, "I can guarantee this truth: No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Nicodemus asked him, "How can anyone be born when he's an old man? He can't go back inside his mother a second time to be born, can he?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jesus answered Nicodemus, "I can guarantee this truth: No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Flesh and blood give birth to flesh and blood, but the Spirit gives birth to things that are spiritual. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Don't be surprised when I tell you that all of you must be born from above. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you don't know where the wind comes from or where it's going. That's the way it is with everyone born of the Spirit." </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Nicodemus replied, "How can that be?" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus told Nicodemus, "You're a well-known teacher of Israel. Can't you understand this? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I can guarantee this truth: We know what we're talking about, and we confirm what we've seen. Yet, you don't accept our message. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If you don't believe me when I tell you about things on earth, how will you believe me when I tell you about things in heaven? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>No one has gone to heaven except the Son of Man, who came from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"As Moses lifted up the snake [on a pole] in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>God loved the world this way: He gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him will not die but will have eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but to save the world. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Those who believe in him won't be condemned. But those who don't believe are already condemned because they don't believe in God's only Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>This is why people are condemned: The light came into the world. Yet, people loved the dark rather than the light because their actions were evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>People who do what is wrong hate the light and don't come to the light. They don't want their actions to be exposed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But people who do what is true come to the light so that the things they do for God may be clearly seen.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Later, Jesus and his disciples went to the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them and baptized people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>John was baptizing in Aenon, near Salim. Water was plentiful there. (People came to John to be baptized, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>since John had not yet been put in prison.)</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Some of John's disciples had an argument with a Jew about purification ceremonies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>So they went to John and asked him, "Rabbi, do you remember the man you spoke so favorably about when he was with you on the other side of the Jordan River? Well, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!" <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>John answered, "People can't receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You are witnesses that I said, 'I'm not the Messiah, but I've been sent ahead of him.' <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>"The groom is the person to whom the bride belongs. The best man, who stands and listens to him, is overjoyed when the groom speaks. This is the joy that I feel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He must increase in importance, while I must decrease in importance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>"The person who comes from above is superior to everyone. I, a person from the earth, know nothing but what is on earth, and that's all I can talk about. The person who comes from heaven is superior to everyone <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and tells what he has seen and heard. Yet, no one accepts what he says. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>I have accepted what that person said, and I have affirmed that God is truthful. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The man whom God has sent speaks God's message. After all, God gives him the Spirit without limit. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Father loves his Son and has put everything in his power. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/3-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, he will see God's constant anger."</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">GOD'S WORD® is a copyrighted work of <a href="//www.godsword.org" target="_top">God's Word to the Nations</a>. Quotations are used by permission. Copyright 1995 by God's Word to the Nations. 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