John 3:15
New International Version
that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

New Living Translation
so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

English Standard Version
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Berean Standard Bible
that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.

Berean Literal Bible
so that everyone believing in Him may have eternal life.

King James Bible
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

New King James Version
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

New American Standard Bible
so that everyone who believes will have eternal life in Him.

NASB 1995
so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

NASB 1977
that whoever believes may in Him have eternal life.

Legacy Standard Bible
so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

Amplified Bible
so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life [after physical death, and will actually live forever].

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

American Standard Version
that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So that every person who believes in him shall not be lost, but shall have eternal life.

Contemporary English Version
Then everyone who has faith in the Son of Man will have eternal life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That whosoever believeth in him, may not perish; but may have life everlasting.

English Revised Version
that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."

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

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

Literal Standard Version
that everyone who is believing in Him may not perish, but may have continuous life,

Majority Standard Bible
that everyone who believes in Him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

New American Bible
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

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

New Revised Standard Version
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

New Heart English Bible
so that everyone believes in him may have everlasting life.

Webster's Bible Translation
That whoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Weymouth New Testament
in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

World English Bible
that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Young's Literal Translation
that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

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Context
Jesus and Nicodemus
14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15that everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life. 16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.…

Cross References
Numbers 21:9
So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

Isaiah 11:10
On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious.

Matthew 25:46
And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of approval."

John 20:31
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.

1 John 2:25
And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

1 John 5:11
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.


Treasury of Scripture

That whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

whosoever.

John 3:16,36
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…

John 1:12
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

John 6:40,47
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day…

not.

John 5:24
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

John 10:28-30
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand…

Matthew 18:11
For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost.

eternal.

John 17:2,3
As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him…

Romans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:22,23
But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life…

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John 3
1. Jesus teaches Nicodemus the necessity of being born again,
14. of faith in his death,
16. the great love of God toward the world,
18. and the condemnation for unbelief.
22. Jesus baptizes in Judea.
23. The baptism, witness, and doctrine of John concerning Jesus.














(15) Not perish, but . . .--These words have been added here from the following verse. Omitting them, the sentence should be rendered, that every one who believeth may have in Him eternal life. This construction is borne out by a comparison of John 5:39; John 16:33; John 20:31. "To believe in Him" is not used by St. John. (See Note on John 1:12.) The thought of this verse is that as every Israelite, believing in God, had in the brazen serpent a message from God; so every man who believes in God ever has this message from God in the crucified Son of Man. The object of faith is not here expressed. The words speak only of the man who believeth, whose heart is open to spiritual truth. That man has, in Jesus Christ and Him crucified, a truth which goes to his inmost spirit, sending a new life through his whole being. To the non-believer this may be but the self-sacrifice of heroism. To the believer it is Light breaking upon the darkness of his soul; it is Life bursting the cold sepulchre of a deadened spirit; it is Love winning its way through the scales of a hardened heart; it is Mercy deeper and wider even than his sin; it is Hope bracing the man to a new life of holiness; it is the Word of God, and in Him he has eternal life. The reader will not forget that the lifting up the serpent of brass followed the confession of the people. "We have sinned . . . pray unto the Lord that He take away the serpents from us" (Numbers 21:7).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
that
ἵνα (hina)
Conjunction
Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

everyone
πᾶς (pas)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole.

who
(ho)
Article - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

believes
πιστεύων (pisteuōn)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 4100: From pistis; to have faith, i.e. Credit; by implication, to entrust.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

Him
αὐτῷ (autō)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

may have
ἔχῃ (echē)
Verb - Present Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2192: To have, hold, possess. Including an alternate form scheo skheh'-o; a primary verb; to hold.

eternal
αἰώνιον (aiōnion)
Adjective - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 166: From aion; perpetual.

life.
ζωὴν (zōēn)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2222: Life, both of physical (present) and of spiritual (particularly future) existence. From zao; life.


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