₁₄As Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in the desert, in the same way the Son of Man must be lifted up, ₁₅so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. ₁₆For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life. ₁₇For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its saviour.

₁₈Those who believe in the Son are not judged; but those who do not believe have already been judged, because they have not believed in God's only Son. ₁₉This is how the judgement works: the light has come into the world, but people love the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil. ₂₀All those who do evil things hate the light and will not come to the light, because they do not want their evil deeds to be shown up. ₂₁But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.