John 3

¹Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

²This man came to Him by night, and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that You do, unless God is with him.”

³Jesus answered and said to him, “Most certainly, most certainly, I tell you, unless anyone is born again, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

⁴Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”

⁵Jesus answered, “Most certainly, most certainly, I tell you, unless anyone is born of water and the Spirit, he can’t enter into the Kingdom of God!

⁶That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

⁷Don’t marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

⁸The wind blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

⁹Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?”

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t know these things?

¹¹Most certainly, most certainly, I tell you, We speak that which We know, and testify of that which We have seen, and you don’t receive Our testimony.

¹²If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

¹³No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

¹⁴As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

¹⁵that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

¹⁷For God didn’t send His Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through Him.

¹⁸He who believes in Him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

¹⁹This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

²⁰For everyone who practices evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

²¹But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

²²After these things, Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. He stayed there with them, and baptized.

²³John also was baptizing in Enon near Salim, because there was much water there. They came, and were baptized.

²⁴For John was not yet thrown into prison.

²⁵There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.

²⁶They came to John, and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, this Man baptizes, and everyone is coming to Him.”

²⁷John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

²⁸You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent before Him.’

²⁹He 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. This, my joy, therefore is made full.

³⁰He must increase, but I must decrease.

³¹He who comes from above is above all. He who is from the earth is from the earth, and speaks of the earth. He who comes from heaven is above all.

³²What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

³³He who has received His testimony has set his seal to this, that God is true.

³⁴For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God doesn’t give the Spirit by measure.

³⁵The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand.

³⁶One 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.”