Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but may have eternal life.

New American Standard Bible

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

International Standard Version

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

American Standard Version

that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

Amplified

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

An Understandable Version

so that whoever believes in Him would have never ending life." [Note: Some translations extend Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus through verse 21].

Anderson New Testament

that whoever believes on him may not perish, but have eternal life.

Bible in Basic English

So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

Common New Testament

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Daniel Mace New Testament

that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

Darby Translation

that every one who believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

Godbey New Testament

that every one believing in Him may have eternal life.

Goodspeed New Testament

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

John Wesley New Testament

That whosoever believeth on him, may not perish, but have everlasting life.

Julia Smith Translation

That every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."

Modern King James verseion

so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that none that believeth in him perish: but have eternal life.

Moffatt New Testament

that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

Montgomery New Testament

in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Noyes New Testament

that every one who believeth in him may have everlasting life.

Sawyer New Testament

that every one believing in him may have eternal life.

The Emphasized Bible

That, whosoever believeth in him, may have life age-abiding.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

that every one who believeth on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

Twentieth Century New Testament

That every one who believes in him may have Immortal Life."

Webster

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."

Williams New Testament

so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

that every one who believes in Him may have eternal life.

Worsley New Testament

that whosoever believeth on Him may not perish, but have eternal life.

Youngs Literal Translation

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

πιστεύω 
Pisteuo 
Usage: 163

in
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

him

Usage: 0

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

αἰώνιος 
Aionios 
Usage: 47

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 3:15

Images John 3:15

Prayers for John 3:15

Context Readings

A Meeting With Nicodemus

14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, 15 so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but may have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.


Cross References

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:36

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 6:40

And this is the will of him who sent me, that every man who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.

John 20:31

But these are written, so that ye may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye may have life in his name.

1 John 5:11-13

And this is the testimony, that God gave eternal life to us, and this life is in his Son.

1 John 5:20

And we know that the Son of God comes, and has given us understanding, so that we may know the true. And we are in the true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the TRUE God, and the eternal life.

Isaiah 45:22

Look to me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is none else.

Matthew 18:10

See that ye not disparage one of these little ones, for I say to you, that in the heavens their agents do always behold the face of my Father in the heavens.

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is immersed will be saved, but he who does not believe will be damned.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.

John 1:12

But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

John 6:47

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

John 10:28-30

And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even though he died, he will live.

John 12:44-46

And Jesus cried out and said, He who believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

John 17:2-3

just as thou gave him authority over all flesh, so that all things that thou have given him, he will give them eternal life.

Acts 8:36

And as they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch says, Look, water! What prevents me to be immersed?

Acts 13:41

Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.

Acts 16:30-31

And after bringing them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do so that I may be saved?

Romans 5:1-2

Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:21

so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign, through righteousness, for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:22-23

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servile to God, ye have your fruit for sanctification, and the end, eternal life.

Romans 10:9-14

that if thou will confess with thy mouth, Lord Jesus, and will believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou will be saved.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message of the cross is of course, foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is a power of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3

But even if our good-news is concealed, it is concealed in those who are perishing,

Galatians 2:16

knowing that a man is not made righteous from works of law, instead through faith of Jesus Christ. And we believed in Christ Jesus, so that we might be made righteous from faith of Christ, and not from works of law, because no fles

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And what I now live in flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Hebrews 7:25

Whereupon he is able also to save to the uttermost those who come to God through him, being always alive in order to intercede on their behalf.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of retreat for destruction, but of faith for the preservation of the soul.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise that he promised us: the eternal life.

1 John 5:1

Every man who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten from God, and every man who loves him who begot, also loves him who has been begotten from him.

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