John 3:17
Good News Translation
For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

New Revised Standard Version
“Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Contemporary English Version
God did not send his Son into the world to condemn its people. He sent him to save them!

New American Bible
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.

God.

John 5:45 Think not that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one that accuseth you, Moses, in whom you trust.

John 8:15,16 You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man. . . .

John 12:47,48 And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. . . .

Luke 9:56 The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town.

but.

John 1:29 The next day, John saw Jesus coming to him; and he saith: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who taketh away the sin of the world.

John 6:40 And this is the will of my Father that sent me: that every one who seeth the Son and believeth in him may have life everlasting. And I will raise him up in the last day.

Isaiah 45:21-23 Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time? Have not I the Lord, and there is no God else besides me? A just God and a saviour, there is none besides me. . . .

Isaiah 49:6,7 And he said: It is a small thing that thou shouldst be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to convert the dregs of Israel. Behold, I have given thee to be the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayst be my salvation even to the farthest part of the earth. . . .

Isaiah 53:10-12 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. . . .

Zechariah 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Sion, shout for joy, O daughter of Jerusalem: BEHOLD THY KING will come to thee, the just and saviour: he is poor, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass.

Matthew 1:23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

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

Matthew 1:23 Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

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

Luke 2:10,11 And the angel said to them: Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy that shall be to all the people: . . .

Luke 19:10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

1 Timothy 2:5,6 For there is one God: and one mediator of God and men, the man Christ Jesus: . . .

1 John 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 4:14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

Context
For God So Loved
16For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. 17For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him. 18He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.…
Cross References
John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God doth not give the Spirit by measure.

John 5:36
But I have a greater testimony than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to perfect, the works themselves which I do, give testimony of me, that the Father hath sent me.

John 5:38
And you have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him you believe not.

John 6:29
Jesus answered and said to them: This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he hath sent.

John 6:38
Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 6:57
As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.

John 7:29
I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.

John 8:11
Who said: No man, Lord. And Jesus said: Neither will I condemn thee. Go, and now sin no more.

John 8:15
You judge according to the flesh: I judge not any man.

John 10:36
Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

John 11:42
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 12:47
And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

John 17:3
Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

John 17:8
Because the words which thou gavest me, I have given to them. And they have received them and have known in very deed that I came out from thee: and they have believed that thou didst send me.

John 17:18
As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.

John 17:21
That they all may be one, as thou, Father, in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 17:23
I in them, and thou in me: that they may be made perfect in one: and the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them, as thou hast also loved me.

John 17:25
Just Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee. And these have known that thou hast sent me.

John 20:21
He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.

1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father hath sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.

John 3:16
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