John 3:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

John 3:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 John 4:14
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
John 12:47-48
And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. …
John 6:57
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
John 6:40
And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-21)

We found, in the close of the foregoing chapter, that few were brought to Christ at Jerusalem; yet here was one, a considerable one. It is worth while to go a great way for the salvation though but of one soul. Observe, I. Who this Nicodemus was. Not many mighty and noble are called; yet some are, and here was one. Not many of the rulers, or of the Pharisees; yet. 1. This was a man of the Pharisee…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17-21. not to condemn, &c.--A statement of vast importance. Though “condemnation” is to many the issue of Christ’s mission (Joh 3:19), it is not the object of His mission, which is purely a saving one.