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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2He 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." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again." |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"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!" |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.' |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The 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." |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"How can this be?" Nicodemus asked. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"You are Israel's teacher," said Jesus, "and do you not understand these things? |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Very 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. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly things? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven--the Son of Man. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For 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. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever 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. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But 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. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22After this, Jesus and his disciples went out into the Judean countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Now John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because there was plenty of water, and people were coming and being baptized. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24(This was before John was put in prison.) |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25An argument developed between some of John's disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They 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." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27To this John replied, "A person can receive only what is given them from heaven. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You yourselves can testify that I said, 'I am not the Messiah but am sent ahead of him.' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29The 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. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30He must become greater; I must become less." |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31The 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. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Whoever has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35The Father loves the Son and has placed everything in his hands. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on them. |
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