11 translations · Greek
John 3:17
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 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- KJV King James Version
- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- For God did not send His Son into the world that He may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through Him;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- God didn't send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;
- DBY Darby Translation
- For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| οὐ | ou | {did} not | G3756 οὐ no |
| γὰρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| ἀπέστειλεν | apesteilen | send | G649 ἀποστέλλω to send |
| ὁ | ho | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Θεὸς | Theos | God | G2316 θεός God |
| τὸν | ton | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| Υἱὸν | Huion | His Son | G5207 υἱός son |
| εἰς | eis | into | G1519 εἰς toward |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| ἵνα | hina | to | G2443 ἵνα in order that/to |
| κρίνῃ | krinē | condemn | G2919 κρίνω to judge |
| τὸν | ton | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμον | kosmon | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| ἀλλ’ | all’ | but | G235 ἀλλά but |
| ἵνα | hina | to | G2443 ἵνα in order that/to |
| σωθῇ | sōthē | save | G4982 σῴζω to save |
| ὁ | ho | the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| κόσμος | kosmos | world | G2889 κόσμος world |
| δι’ | di’ | through | G1223 διά through/because of |
| αὐτοῦ | autou | Him | G846 αὐτός it/s/he |
Related verses
- 1 John 4:14
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- Luke 19:10
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- John 12:47–48
If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
- John 6:57
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
- 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 6:29
Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
- 1 Timothy 2:5–6
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
- John 20:21
Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
- 1 John 2:2
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
- John 17:3
This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
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.
17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
18 He 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 one and only Son of God.
19 This 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.
Read all of John 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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