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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NIV</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" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/john/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Teaches Nicodemus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus replied, <span class="red">“Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek for again also means from above; also in verse 7.">a</a></sup></span> ”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="red">Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or but spirit">b</a></sup></span> gives birth to spirit.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">You should not be surprised at my saying, ‘You <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek is plural.">c</a></sup></span> must be born again.’</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="red">The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek for Spirit is the same as that for wind.">d</a></sup></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="red">“You are Israel’s teacher,”</span> said Jesus, <span class="red">“and do you not understand these things?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="red">Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="red">I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things?</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="red">No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts Man, who is in heaven">e</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="red">Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The Greek for lifted up also means exalted.">f</a></sup></span> </span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="red">that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.">g</a></sup></span> </span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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 shall not perish but have eternal life. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.</p> <p class="sectionhead">John Testifies Again About Jesus</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>(This was before John was put in prison.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—look, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>To this John replied, “A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>He must become greater; I must become less.” <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 36.">h</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from heaven is above all. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek he">i</a></sup></span> gives the Spirit without limit. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/3-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/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, for God’s wrath remains on them.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek for <i>again</i> also means <i>from above</i>; also in verse 7.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>but spirit</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">7</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek is plural.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek for <i>Spirit</i> is the same as that for <i>wind</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some manuscripts <i>Man, who is in heaven</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> <span class="footnotebot">The Greek for <i>lifted up</i> also means <i>exalted</i>.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">g</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 21.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">h</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some interpreters end the quotation with verse 36.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">i</span> <span class="fnverse">34</span> <span class="footnotebot">Greek <i>he</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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