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John 3:7-21 Common English Bible (CEB)

7. Don’t be surprised that I said to you, ‘You must be born anew.’

8. God’s Spirit blows wherever it wishes. You hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. It’s the same with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

9. Nicodemus said, "How are these things possible?"

10. “Jesus answered, “You are a teacher of Israel and you don’t know these things?

11. I assure you that we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you don’t receive our testimony.

12. If I have told you about earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

13. No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Human One.

14. Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so must the Human One be lifted up

15. so that everyone who believes in him will have eternal life.

16. God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him won’t perish but will have eternal life.

17. God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through him.

18. Whoever believes in him isn’t judged; whoever doesn’t believe in him is already judged, because they don’t believe in the name of God’s only Son.

19. "This is the basis for judgment: The light came into the world, and people loved darkness more than the light, for their actions are evil.

20. All who do wicked things hate the light and don’t come to the light for fear that their actions will be exposed to the light.

21. Whoever does the truth comes to the light so that it can be seen that their actions were done in God."

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