Thematic Bible
John 3:1 (show verse)
Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.
John 3:2 (show verse)
This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."
John 3:3 (show verse)
Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God."
John 3:4 (show verse)
Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born [when he] is an old man? He is not able to enter into his mother's womb for the second time and be born, [can he]?"
John 3:5 (show verse)
Jesus answered, "Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born of water and spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.
John 3:6 (show verse)
What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 (show verse)
Do not be astonished that I said to you, 'It is necessary for you to be born from above.'
John 3:8 (show verse)
The wind blows wherever it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
John 3:9 (show verse)
Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these [things] be?"
John 3:10 (show verse)
Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher of Israel, and you do not understand these [things]?
John 3:11 (show verse)
Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!
John 3:12 (show verse)
If I tell you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
John 3:13 (show verse)
And no one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven--the Son of Man.
John 3:14 (show verse)
And just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, thus it is necessary [that] the Son of Man be lifted up,
John 3:15 (show verse)
so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."
John 3:16 (show verse)
For in this way God loved the world, so that he gave his one and only Son, in order that everyone who believes in him will not perish, but will have eternal life.
John 3:17 (show verse)
For God did not send his Son into the world in order that he should judge the world, but in order that the world should be saved through him.
John 3:18 (show verse)
The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
John 3:19 (show verse)
And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.
John 3:20 (show verse)
For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.
John 3:21 (show verse)
But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, in order that his deeds may be revealed, that they are done in God.
John 3:22 (show verse)
After these [things] Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.
John 3:23 (show verse)
Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and they were coming and were being baptized.
John 3:24 (show verse)
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
John 3:25 (show verse)
So a dispute occurred on the part of John's disciples with a Jew concerning purification.
John 3:26 (show verse)
And they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, he who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, about whom you testified--look, this one is baptizing, and all are coming to him!"
John 3:27 (show verse)
John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!
John 3:28 (show verse)
You yourselves testify about me that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I am sent before that one.'
John 3:29 (show verse)
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices {greatly} because of the bridegroom's voice. So this joy of mine is complete.
John 3:30 (show verse)
It is necessary for that one to increase, but [for] me to decrease."
John 3:31 (show verse)
The one who comes from above is over all. The one who is from the earth is from the earth and speaks from the earth; the one who comes from heaven is over all.
John 3:32 (show verse)
What he has seen and heard, this he testifies, and no one accepts his testimony.
John 3:33 (show verse)
The one who accepts his testimony has attested that God is true.
John 3:34 (show verse)
For [the one] whom God sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit by measure.
John 3:35 (show verse)
The Father loves the Son and has given all [things] into his hand.
John 3:36 (show verse)
The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who disobeys the Son will not see life--but the wrath of God remains on him.