John 3:17 KJV

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.King James Version

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The same verse in modern English

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.John 3:17, World English Bible (WEB)

John 3:17 in the WEB, with its own quiet pause

From John 3

Nicodemus came by night with careful questions, and Jesus spoke of wind no one can track. What questions do you bring to God in the dark? He welcomes them.

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The reading prompts in this Bible use the wording of the World English Bible.

For your own quiet time, Stilling Waves makes a journal for this chapter: When You Believed but the Bible Still Reads Like a Foreign Language.

More from John 3 in the KJV: John 3:16 John 3:1 all KJV verses

Scripture: King James Version (1769 text), from eBible.org and the CrossWire Bible Society; public domain outside the United Kingdom, and in the United Kingdom under Crown patent, administered by Cambridge University Press. About the KJV here.