15 That whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 (A)[a]For God so loveth the world, that he hath given his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth [b]in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 (B)[c]For God sent not his Son into the world, that he should [d]condemn the world, but that the [e]world through him might be saved.

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Footnotes

  1. John 3:16 Nothing else but the free love of the Father, is the beginning of our salvation, and Christ is he in whom our righteousness and salvation is resident: and faith is the instrument or mean whereby we apprehend it, and life everlasting is that which is set before us to apprehend.
  2. John 3:16 It is not all one to believe in a thing, and to believe of a thing, for we may not believe (in anything) save only in God, but we may believe (of anything) whatsoever, this saith Nazianzene in his oration of the Spirit.
  3. John 3:17 Not Christ, but the despising of Christ doth condemn.
  4. John 3:17 That is, to be the cause of the condemning of the world, for indeed sins are the cause of death, but Christ shall judge the quick and the dead.
  5. John 3:17 Not only the people of the Jews, but whosoever shall believe in him.

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