John 3:7-21

7Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

8The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

9Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?"

10Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?

11Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.

12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?

13No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.

14And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

16"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

19And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.

21But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God."