John 3:16

God's love for the world moved him to give his only Son so that believers would not perish but have eternal life. It is the gospel in a single sentence.

Cross-references · 23

• Rom 5:8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
• 1 Jn 4:9–10By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
• Rom 8:32He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?
• John 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 11:25–26Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
• John 6:40This 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 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
• 1 Jn 4:19We love him, because he first loved us.
• John 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
• 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.
• Rom 5:10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
• John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
• 2 Cor 5:19–21namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
• Eph 2:4But God, being rich in mercy, for his great love with which he loved us,
• Matt 9:13But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Rev 1:5and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood;
• John 1:14The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
• Gen 22:12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
• Titus 3:4But when the kindness of God our Savior and his love toward mankind appeared,
• John 1:18No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.
• Mark 12:6Therefore still having one, his beloved son, he sent him last to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
• Luke 2:14“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

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