3:16神爱世人，甚至将他的独生子赐给他们，叫一切信他的，不至灭亡，反得永生。
3:17因为 神差他的儿子降世，不是要定世人的罪（注：或作“审判世人”。下同），乃是要叫世人因他得救。
3:18信他的人，不被定罪；不信的人，罪已经定了，因为他不信 神独生子的名。
3:19光来到世间，世人因自己的行为是恶的，不爱光倒爱黑暗，定他们的罪就是在此。
3:20凡作恶的便恨光，并不来就光，恐怕他的行为受责备；
3:21但行真理的必来就光，要显明他所行的是靠 神而行。”
16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
21But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”