No one has ever gone into heaven
except the one who came from heaven
-- the Son of Man.
Just as Moses lifted up
the snake in the desert,
so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
that everyone who believes
in him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that
he gave his one and only son,
that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into
the world to condemn the world,
but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not
believe stands condemned already
because he has not believed in
the name of God's one and only Son.
This is the verdict:
Light has come into the world, but
men loved darkness instead of light
because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light,
and will not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth
comes into the light,
so that it may be seen plainly
that what he has done has been done
through God.
John 3:13-21 (NIV)