Parallel Verses

Amplified

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life [after physical death, and will actually live forever].

New American Standard Bible

so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

International Standard Version

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

A Conservative Version

so that every man who believes in him would not perish, but may have eternal life.

American Standard Version

that whosoever believeth may in him have eternal life.

An Understandable Version

so that whoever believes in Him would have never ending life." [Note: Some translations extend Jesus' conversation with Nicodemus through verse 21].

Anderson New Testament

that whoever believes on him may not perish, but have eternal life.

Bible in Basic English

So that whoever has faith may have in him eternal life.

Common New Testament

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Daniel Mace New Testament

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

Darby Translation

that every one who believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

Godbey New Testament

that every one believing in Him may have eternal life.

Goodspeed New Testament

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

John Wesley New Testament

That whosoever believeth on him, may not perish, but have everlasting life.

Julia Smith Translation

That every one believing in him perish not, but have eternal life.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life."

Modern King James verseion

so that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

that none that believeth in him perish: but have eternal life.

Moffatt New Testament

that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.

Montgomery New Testament

in order that every one who believes in him may have eternal life.

NET Bible

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

New Heart English Bible

that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Noyes New Testament

that every one who believeth in him may have everlasting life.

Sawyer New Testament

that every one believing in him may have eternal life.

The Emphasized Bible

That, whosoever believeth in him, may have life age-abiding.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

that every one who believeth on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

Twentieth Century New Testament

That every one who believes in him may have Immortal Life."

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

in order that every one who trusts in Him may have the Life of the Ages."

Williams New Testament

so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

that every one who believes in Him may have eternal life.

Worsley New Testament

that whosoever believeth on Him may not perish, but have eternal life.

Youngs Literal Translation

that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

πᾶς 
Pas 
Usage: 704

πιστεύω 
Pisteuo 
Usage: 163

in
εἰς 
Eis 
into, to, unto, for, in, on, toward, against,
Usage: 1267

him

Usage: 0

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

ἀπόλλυμι 
Apollumi 
Usage: 37

but
ἀλλά 
Alla 
but, yea, yet, nevertheless, howbeit, nay, therefore, save, not tr,
Usage: 461

ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

αἰώνιος 
Aionios 
Usage: 47

Devotionals

Devotionals about John 3:15

Images John 3:15

Prayers for John 3:15

Context Readings

A Meeting With Nicodemus

14 Just as Moses lifted up the [bronze] serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross], 15 so that whoever believes will in Him have eternal life [after physical death, and will actually live forever]. 16 “For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.


Cross References

John 3:16

“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:36

He who believes and trusts in the Son and accepts Him [as Savior] has eternal life [that is, already possesses it]; but he who does not believe the Son and chooses to reject Him, [disobeying Him and denying Him as Savior] will not see [eternal] life, but [instead] the wrath of God hangs over him continually.”

John 6:40

For this is My Father’s will and purpose, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him [as Savior] will have eternal life, and I will raise him up [from the dead] on the last day.”

John 20:31

but these have been written so that you may believe [with a deep, abiding trust] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God; and that by believing [and trusting in and relying on Him] you may have life in His name.

1 John 5:11-13

And the testimony is this: God has given us eternal life [we already possess it], and this life is in His Son [resulting in our spiritual completeness, and eternal companionship with Him].

1 John 5:20

And we [have seen and] know [by personal experience] that the Son of God has [actually] come [to this world], and has given us understanding and insight so that we may [progressively and personally] know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

Isaiah 45:22


“Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other.

Matthew 18:10

“See that you do not despise or think less of one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven [are in the presence of and] continually look upon the face of My Father who is in heaven.

Mark 16:16

He who has believed [in Me] and has been baptized will be saved [from the penalty of God’s wrath and judgment]; but he who has not believed will be condemned.

Luke 19:10

for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

John 1:12

But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the right [the authority, the privilege] to become children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name—

John 5:24

“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, the person who hears My word [the one who heeds My message], and believes and trusts in Him who sent Me, has (possesses now) eternal life [that is, eternal life actually begins—the believer is transformed], and does not come into judgment and condemnation, but has passed [over] from death into life.

John 6:47

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he who believes [in Me as Savior—whoever adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me—already] has eternal life [that is, now possesses it].

John 10:28-30

And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand.

John 11:25-26

Jesus said to her, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in (adheres to, trusts in, relies on) Me [as Savior] will live even if he dies;

John 12:44-46

But Jesus loudly declared, “The one who believes and trusts in Me does not believe [only] in Me but [also believes] in Him who sent Me.

John 16:33

I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]

John 17:2-3

Just as You have given Him power and authority over all mankind, [now glorify Him] so that He may give eternal life to all whom You have given Him [to be His—permanently and forever].

Acts 8:36

As they continued along the road, they came to some water; and the eunuch exclaimed, “Look! Water! What forbids me from being baptized?”

Acts 13:41


Look, you mockers, and marvel, and perish and vanish away;
For I am doing a work in your days,
A work which you will never believe, even if someone describes it to you [telling you about it in detail].’”

Acts 16:30-31

and after he brought them out [of the inner prison], he said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”

Romans 5:1-2

Therefore, since we have been justified [that is, acquitted of sin, declared blameless before God] by faith, [let us grasp the fact that] we have peace with God [and the joy of reconciliation with Him] through our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed).

Romans 5:21

so that, as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness which brings eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Romans 6:22-23

But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for God’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life.

Romans 10:9-14

because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.

1 Corinthians 1:18

For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God.

2 Corinthians 4:3

But even if our gospel is [in some sense] hidden [behind a veil], it is hidden [only] to those who are perishing;

Galatians 2:16

yet we know that a man is not justified [and placed in right standing with God] by works of the Law, but [only] through faith in [God’s beloved Son,] Christ Jesus. And even we [as Jews] have believed in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the Law. By observing the Law no one will ever be justified [declared free of the guilt of sin and its penalty].

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ [that is, in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body I live by faith [by adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting] in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore He is able also to save forever (completely, perfectly, for eternity) those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede and intervene on their behalf [with God].

Hebrews 10:39

But our way is not that of those who shrink back to destruction, but [we are] of those who believe [relying on God through faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah] and by this confident faith preserve the soul.

1 John 2:25

This is the promise which He Himself promised us—eternal life.

1 John 5:1

Everyone who believes [with a deep, abiding trust in the fact] that Jesus is the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) is born of God [that is, reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, and set apart for His purpose], and everyone who loves the Father also loves the child born of Him.

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