John 3:15

The purpose of Christ's being lifted up is that everyone who believes in him has eternal life. Faith in the crucified Son is the way to life.

Cross-references · 33

• John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
• John 6:40For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 12:44–46Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.
• John 3:36Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
• 1 Jn 5:11–13And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
• 1 Jn 5:20And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• Heb 7:25Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.
• John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• Rom 10:9–14that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
• 1 Jn 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves those born of Him.
• John 10:28–30I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
• Isa 45:22Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
• John 6:47Truly, truly, I tell you, he who believes has eternal life.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
• Acts 16:30–31Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
• John 1:12But to all who did receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God—
• John 5:24Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment. Indeed, he has crossed over from death to life.
• Luke 19:10For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
• Rom 6:22–23But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
• John 17:2–3For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.
• Gal 2:16know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
• Acts 8:36As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
• 1 Jn 2:25And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.
• Heb 10:39But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• Mark 16:16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
• 1 Cor 1:18For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
• 2 Cor 4:3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.
• Rom 5:1–2Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Gal 2:20I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
• Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
• Matt 18:10See that you do not look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of My Father in heaven.
• Rom 5:21so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• John 16:33I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

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