Parallel Verses

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].

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.

A Conservative Version

so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but may 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].

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] like Moses lifted up the snake [on the pole] in the wilderness [Num. 21:9], so the Son of man must be lifted up [on the cross] 15 so that whoever believes in Him would have never ending life." [Note: Some translations extend Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus through verse 21]. 16 For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.

Cross References

John 3:16

For God loved the world [of sinners] so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that every person who believes in Him would not [have to] be destroyed, but have never ending life.

John 3:36

The person who believes in the Son has never ending life, but the person who disobeys the Son will not see life [i.e., will not experience never ending life], but [instead], God's wrath remains on him.

John 6:40

And this is what [else] my Father wants: That every person who sees the Son [i.e., with the eye of faith] and believes in Him should have never ending life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day."

John 20:31

But these [signs] are written down so that you will believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that when you believe [this], you will have [never ending] life in His name [i.e., through His person and work].

1 John 5:11-13

And this is the testimony [of God]: He gave to us [the hope of] never ending life, and this life is [available through fellowship] in His Son.

1 John 5:20

And [in addition], we know that the Son of God has come [in a physical body, See 4:2] and has given us understanding, so that we can know the True One [i.e., God], and that we are in [fellowship with] the True One, even His Son Jesus Christ. This Son is the true God and eternal life.

Matthew 18:10

Make sure you do not look down on any one of these little ones [i.e., humble followers of Christ]. For I tell you, their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. {[{[Some ancient manuscripts include verse

Mark 16:16

The person who believes [i.e., the Gospel] and is immersed will be saved [i.e., from condemnation], but whoever does not believe it will be condemned.

Luke 19:10

For the Son of man came to search for and save those who were lost."

John 1:12

But He gave all those who did welcome Him the opportunity of becoming children of God by believing in His name [i.e., as the Messiah].

John 5:24

"Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who listens to my message and believes [in] the One who sent me [i.e., God] has never ending life [i.e., as a hope. See Titus 1:2; 3:7]. He will not be judged [and condemned], but has [already] passed from being [spiritually] dead to being [spiritually] alive.

John 6:47

Truly, truly, I tell you, the person who believes [in me] has never ending life. [See note on 5:24].

John 10:28-30

I give them never ending life and they will never be destroyed, and no one will [be able to] steal them out of my hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life; the person who believes in me will live on, even though he dies [physically].

John 12:44-46

Then Jesus spoke out in a loud voice, "The person who believes in me, does not [only] believe in me, but [also] in Him who sent me [i.e., God].

John 16:33

I have said these things to you so that you can have peace in [fellowship with] me. You will have trouble in the world, but cheer up, for I have conquered the world."

John 17:2-3

Just as you gave Him authority over all mankind, He will give never ending life to all those people [Note: The Greek word here is neuter gender, "all those things"] you have given Him.

Acts 8:36

As they [i.e., Philip, the Ethiopian eunuch and his attendants] traveled along they came to a certain [body of] water. The [Ethiopian] eunuch said, "Look, here is [a body of] water, why can't I be immersed [right now]?" {{Verse

Acts 13:41

[Hab. 1:5 says], "Look, you people who despise [God], and be amazed [at what He can do] and be destroyed [for rejecting Him]; for I [i.e., God] will accomplish such a work during your days that you will not believe [it could happen, even] if someone told you about it."

Acts 16:30-31

After bringing them out [of the jail area] he said, "Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?"

Romans 5:1-2

So, since we are made right with God by [our] faith, we have peace with Him through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 5:21

This was so that just as sin ruled [over mankind], causing [physical] death, even so God's unearned favor would rule [over mankind], providing [them with] righteousness, and leading to never ending life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:22-23

But now, since you have been freed from [the practice of] sin and have become slaves to God, the benefits you receive are a holy life [here] and never ending life in the future.

Romans 10:9-14

So, if you profess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message of [Christ dying on] the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing [i.e., in a lost state], but it is God's power to us who are being saved.

2 Corinthians 4:3

For even if our Gospel message is veiled, it is veiled [only] from those who are lost.

Galatians 2:16

still we know that a person is not justified [i.e., made right with God] by [perfect obedience to] the law of Moses, but rather through faith in [the person and work of] Christ. [Knowing this] we have trusted in Christ Jesus [to save us], so that we might be made right with God by trusting in Him and not by [our compliance with] the requirements of the law of Moses. Because by such law-compliance no one can be made right with God.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified [i.e., died] with Christ, and so I am not the one who lives [anymore] but rather, it is Christ who lives in my heart. And [now] my entire life is being lived by trusting in the Son of God [to save and keep me], because He loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Hebrews 7:25

So, He is also able to save completely those people who approach God through Him, since He lives forever to intercede [i.e., to plead to God] on their behalf.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not like those people who turn back and are destroyed, but like those who have faith [in God] and obtain the salvation of their souls.

1 John 2:25

And this is the promise which Christ [or, "God"] has given to us: [It is] never ending life. [Note: This passage may mean that God promised us "the Eternal Life," that is, Christ, See John 3:16].

1 John 5:1

Every person who believes that Jesus is the Christ [i.e., God's specially chosen one] has been [spiritually] conceived [and eventually born] by God. And everyone who [continually] loves God, who did the conceiving, also [must continually] love the person whom God has [spiritually] conceived.

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