John 3:17

God sent his Son not to condemn the world but to save it through him. Christ's first coming is a mission of rescue.

Cross-references · 29

• 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.”
• John 12:47–48If 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.
• John 6:57As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.
• 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 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
• 1 Tim 2:5–6For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
• John 20:21Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
• 1 Jn 2:2And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• John 17:3This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
• John 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
• Zech 9:9Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• John 7:29I know him, because I am from him, and he sent me.”
• John 8:42Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.
• 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 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!
• John 8:15–16You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• Isa 53:10–12Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days, and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.
• John 5:36But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me.
• Luke 2:10–11The angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be to all the people.
• John 10:36do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’
• John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
• Isa 45:21–23Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior; There is no one besides me.
• John 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
• John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
• Isa 49:6–7Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
• 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.
• 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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