John 3:15

John 3:15 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• New International Version (NIV)that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
• New King James Version (NKJV)that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.

Context of John 3:15

13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven – the Son of Man. 14Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

John 3:15 word by word

ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων ἐν αὐτῷ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• ·ὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• Thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• whosoeverπᾶςpas · allG3956
• believethπιστεύωpisteuō · to trust (in)G4100
• inεἰςeis · towardG1519
• himαὐτόςautos · it/s/heG846
• shouldἀπολλύωapollumi · to destroyG622
• notμήmē · notG3361
• butἀλλάalla · butG235
• haveἔχωechō · to have/beG2192
• eternalαἰώνιοςaiōnios · eternalG166
• lifeζωήzōē · lifeG2222

Cross-references for John 3:15

• John 3:16For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
• John 1:12But to all who have received him – those who believe in his name – he has given the right to become God’s children
• John 6:40For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,
• John 12:44But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,
• John 20:31But these are recorded 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.
• Isaiah 45:22Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.
• Mark 16:16The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
• Acts 16:30Then he brought them outside and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
• Romans 5:1Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• Romans 10:9because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Galatians 2:16yet we know that no one is justified by the works of the law but by the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. And we have come to believe in Christ Jesus, so that we may be justified by the faithfulness of Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
• Hebrews 7:25So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
• Hebrews 10:39But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• 1 John 5:1Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.

Commentaries on John 3:15

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15That whosoever believeth - Bp. Pearce supposes that this verse is only the conclusion of the 16th, and that it has been inserted in this place by mistake. The words contain the reason of the subject in the following verse, and seem to break in upon our Lord's argument before he had fully stated it. The words, , may not perish but, are omitted by some very ancient MSS. and versions.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15That whosoever - This shows the fulness and freeness of the gospel. All may come and be saved. d Believeth in him - Whosoever puts confidence in him as able and willing to save. All who feel that they are sinners, that they have no righteousness of their own, and are willing to look to him as their only Saviour. Should not perish - They are in danger, by nature, of perishing - that is, of sinking down to the pains of hell; of being “punished with…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-15Jesus was lifted up on the cross so that all people could understand the way of salvation, look to him in faith, and have eternal life.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1614-16. And as Moses, &c.--Here now we have the "heavenly things," as before the "earthly," but under a veil, for the reason mentioned in Joh 3:12. The crucifixion of Messiah is twice after this veiled under the same lively term--"uplifting," Joh 8:28; 12:32, 33. Here it is still further veiled--though to us who know what it means, rendered vastly more instructive--by reference to the brazen serpent. The venom of the fiery serpents, shooting through the…Read the comment

Topics related to John 3:15

• Brazen Serpent
• Faith
• Immortality
• Jesus, the Christ
• Life
• Righteous
• Salvation
• Types
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Eternal life
• Believe
• Born
• Brass
• Call
• Condemn
• Condemnation
• Darkness
• Decrease
• Increase

Commentaries on John 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Catena Aurea
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• John Lightfoot Commentary
• Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings