17For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;


In Context

14 'And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,

15 that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during,

16 for God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

17 For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him;

18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil;

John 3:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17For God has not sent his Son into the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him may be saved.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:17For God didn't send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:17For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.