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John 3:1 A Pharisee named Nicodemus was a Jewish leader.
John 3:2 He came to Jesus at night and said, "Teacher, we know you have come from God because no one can do the miracles you do unless God is with him."
John 3:3 Jesus replied, "Truly, I tell you, unless a person is born again, they cannot see God's kingdom."
John 3:4 Nicodemus said to him, "How can an old man be born again? Can he go back into his mother's womb and be born a second time?"
John 3:5 Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, they cannot enter God's kingdom."
John 3:6 What comes from the body is body; and what comes from the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Don't be surprised when I tell you, you must be born again.
John 3:8 The wind blows where it wants, and you hear the sound of it, but you can't tell where it comes from or where it goes: so it is with everyone born of the Spirit.
John 3:9 Nicodemus replied and asked him, "How can this happen?"
John 3:10 Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and don't know these things?"
John 3:11 Truly, truly, I tell you, we talk about what we know and share what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.
John 3:12 If I have spoken to you about things of this world and you do not believe, how will you believe if I speak to you about things of heaven?
John 3:13 No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.
John 3:14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, the Son of Man must also be lifted up.
John 3:15 Everyone who believes in him will not die but have forever life.
John 3:16 God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not die but have eternal life.
John 3:17 God did not send his Son into the world to judge it, but to save the world through him.
John 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not judged, but whoever does not believe is already judged, because they have not believed in the name of God's only Son.
John 3:19 This is the judgment: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness more than light because their actions were bad.
John 3:20 Everyone who does bad things hates the light and doesn't come to the light, so their actions won't be criticized.
John 3:21 But the person who does what is true comes to the light, so that it can be clearly seen that their actions have been done through God.
John 3:22 After this, Jesus and his followers went to the area of Judea; there he stayed with them and performed baptisms.
John 3:23 John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; so people came and were baptized.
John 3:24 John had not yet been put in prison.
John 3:25 A dispute about how to purify oneself arose between some of John's followers and the Jewish people.
John 3:26 They went to John and said, "Teacher, the one you talked about on the other side of the Jordan River is now baptizing, and everyone is going to him."
John 3:27 John replied, "A person can only get what is given to them from heaven."
John 3:28 You can testify that I said I am not the Christ, but I am sent ahead of him.
John 3:29 The one with the bride is the groom; but the groom's friend, who stands by and listens, is very happy to hear the groom's voice. So my happiness is complete.
John 3:30 He must become greater, but I must become less.
John 3:31 The one who comes from above is greater than all; the one who is from the earth belongs to the earth and talks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is greater than all.
John 3:32 What he has seen and heard, he tells; but no one accepts what he says.
John 3:33 The one who accepts what he has said shows that God is truthful.
John 3:34 The one God sends speaks God's words because God gives the Spirit without limit to him.
John 3:35 God loves the Son and has given everything into his control.
John 3:36 Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life; but anyone who doesn't believe in the Son won't have life, and God's anger stays on them.