John 3:14-21 [Jesus said:] “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Chosen One be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world to give the Only Begotten, so that everyone who believes may not perish but may have eternal life. “Indeed, God did not send the Only Begotten into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved. Those who believe in Only Begotten are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Begotten of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.”