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John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.
John 3:17 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
John 3:17 in other translations
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.
For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
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In context
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
16 For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son: that whosoever believeth in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world, to judge the world: but that the world may be saved by him.
18 He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.
20 For every one that doth evil hateth the light and cometh not to the light, that his works may not be reproved.
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