Cross references

John 3:17

For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him.

John 3:17 BSB

John 3:17 has 29 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 28 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 John 4:14 (68 votes) and Luke 19:10 (66 votes). 57 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Psalm 40 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does John 3:17 point to?

The 20 strongest of 29, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. 1 John 4:1468 votes

    And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world.

  2. Luke 19:1066 votes

    For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

  3. As for anyone who hears My words and does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

  4. John 6:5738 votes

    Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

  5. John 6:4034 votes

    For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”

  6. John 6:2929 votes

    Jesus replied, “The work of God is this: to believe in the One He has sent.”

  7. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all—the testimony that was given at just the right time.

  8. John 20:2125 votes

    Again Jesus said to them, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent Me, so also I am sending you.”

  9. 1 John 2:223 votes

    He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.

  10. John 17:320 votes

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  11. John 11:4218 votes
  12. John 1:2915 votes
  13. John 5:4515 votes
  14. John 7:2915 votes
  15. John 8:4215 votes
  16. Matthew 1:2314 votes

Which verses point to John 3:17?

The 10 strongest of 57.