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.
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- KJV And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
- BSB As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
- NKJV And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.
- NASB If anyone hears My teachings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.
- NLT I will not judge those who hear me but don’t obey me, for I have come to save the world and not to judge it.
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- John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
- John 12:48He 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 8:15–16You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
- 1 Tim 1:15–16The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
- 1 Jn 4:14We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
- Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”
- Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
- John 5:45“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.
- John 8:26I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you. However he who sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these I say to the world.”
- Matt 18:10See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
- 2 Pet 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you;
- Luke 9:56For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
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