Parallel Verses

World English Bible

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but 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.

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].

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.

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 As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.


Cross References

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:36

One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won't see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."

John 6:40

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day."

John 20:31

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

1 John 5:11-13

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

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

Isaiah 45:22

"Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Matthew 18:10

See that you don't despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Mark 16:16

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

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 received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:

John 5:24

"Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn't come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

John 6:47

Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.

John 10:28-30

I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one 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 will still live, even if he dies.

John 12:44-46

Jesus cried out and said, "Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world."

John 17:2-3

even as you gave him authority over all flesh, he will give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

Acts 8:36

As they went on the way, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, "Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?"

Acts 13:41

Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.'"

Acts 16:30-31

and brought them out and said, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?"

Romans 5:1-2

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

Romans 5:21

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

Romans 6:22-23

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

Romans 10:9-14

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

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are saved it is the power of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish;

Galatians 2:16

yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

1 John 2:25

This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life.

1 John 5:1

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.

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