KJ3 Literal Translation
John 3
1 Christ teaches Nicodemus the necessity of regeneration. 14 Of faith in His death.
1But there was a man from the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews.
2This one came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that You have come as a teacher from God. For no one is able to do these miraculous signs which You do, except God be with Him.
3Jesus answered and said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, If one is not generated from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.
4Nicodemus said to Him, How is a man able to be generated, being old? He is not able to enter into his mother’s womb a second time and be generated.
5Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say to you, If one is not generated out of water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the kingdom of God.
6The thing having been generated out of the flesh is flesh, and that having been generated out of the Spirit is spirit.
7Do not wonder because I said to you, You must be generated from above.
8The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice; but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone having been generated from the Spirit.
9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How are these things able to occur?
10Jesus answered and said to him, You are the teacher of Israel, and you do not know these things?
11Truly, truly, I say to you, That what we know, we speak; and that which we have seen, we testify. And you do not receive our witness.
12If I tell you earthly things, and you do not believe, how will you believe if I told you heavenly things?
13And no one has gone up into Heaven, except He having come down out of Heaven, the Son of Man who is in Heaven.
14And even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
15that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but may have everlasting life.
16For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone believing into Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17For God did not send His Son into the world that He might judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18The one believing into Him is not condemned; but the one not believing has already been condemned, for he has not believed into the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19And this is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the Light, for their works were evil.
20For everyone practicing wickedness hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, that his works may not be exposed.
21But the one doing the truth comes to the Light, that his works may be revealed, that they are being worked in God.
22After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea. And He stayed there with them and was baptizing.
23And John was also baptizing in Aenon, near Salim, for many waters were there. And they were coming and were being baptized.
24For John had not yet been thrown into the prison.
25Then a questioning from John’s disciples arose with the Jews about purification.
26And they came to John and said to him, Teacher, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have witnessed, behold, this One baptizes, and all are coming to Him.
27John answered and said, A man is able to receive nothing if it is not given to him from Heaven.
28You yourselves witness to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but that having been sent, I am before that One.
29The one having the bride is the bridegroom. But the friend of the bridegroom, standing and hearing him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. Then this my joy has been fulfilled.
30That One must increase, but me to decrease.
31The One coming from above is above all. The one being of the earth is of the earth, and speaks of the earth. The One coming out of Heaven is above all.
32And what He has seen and heard, this He testifies, and no one receives His testimony.
33The one receiving His testimony has sealed that God is true.
34For the One whom God sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.
35The Father loves the Son and has given all things into His hand.
36The one believing into the Son has everlasting life; but the one disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
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