God cares about all men.
Psalm 79:11 (NKJV)
According to the greatness of Your power,
Preserve those who are appointed to die."
2 After dark one evening, he came to speak with Jesus.
“Rabbi,” he said, “we all know that God has sent you to teach us. Your
miraculous signs are evidence that God is with you.”
3 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, unless you are
born again, you cannot see the Kingdom of God.”
4 “What do you mean?” exclaimed Nicodemus. “How can an
old man go back into his mother’s womb and be born again?”
5 Jesus replied, “I assure you, no one can enter the
Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.
6 Humans can reproduce only human life, but the Holy
Spirit gives birth to spiritual life.
7 So don’t be surprised when I say, ‘You must be born
again.’
8 The wind blows wherever it wants. Just as you can hear
the wind but can’t tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can’t
explain how people are born of the Spirit.”
9 “How are these things possible?” Nicodemus asked.
10 Jesus replied, “You are a respected Jewish teacher,
and yet you don’t understand these things?
11 I assure you, we tell you what we know and have seen,
and yet you won’t believe our testimony.
12 But if you don’t believe me when I tell you about
earthly things, how can you possibly believe if I tell you about heavenly
things?
13 No one has ever gone to heaven and returned. But the
Son of Man has come down from heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the bronze snake on a pole in
the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,
15 so that everyone who believes in him will have
eternal life.
16 For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one
and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have
eternal life.
17 God sent his Son into the world not to judge the
world, but to save the world through him.
18 There is no judgment against anyone who believes in
him. But anyone who does not believe in him has already been judged for not
believing in God’s one and only Son.
19 And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light
came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for
their actions were evil.
20 All who do evil hate the light and refuse to go near
it for fear their sins will be exposed.
21 But those who do what is right come to the light so
others can see that they are doing what God wants.”
22 Then Jesus and his disciples went out to the Judean
countryside, where he spent some time with them, and baptized them.
23 At this time John the Baptist was baptizing at Aenon,
near Salim, because there was plenty of water there; and people kept coming to
him for baptism.
24 (This was before John was thrown into prison.)
25 A debate broke out between John’s disciples and a
certain Jew over ceremonial washing.
26 So John’s disciples came to him and said, “Rabbi, the
man you met on the other side of the Jordan River—the one you identified as the
Messiah—is baptizing people, and everybody is going to him instead of coming to
us.”
27 John replied, “No one can receive anything unless God
gives it from heaven.
28 You yourselves know how plainly I told you, ‘I am not
the Messiah. I am only here to prepare the way for him.’
29 It is the bridegroom who marries the bride, and the
bridegroom’s friend who stands beside him and hears his vows. It is a great joy
to hear the bridegroom’s voice.
30 Therefore, I am filled with joy at his success.
31 He must become greater and greater, and I must become
less and less.
32 He has come from above and is greater than anyone
else. We are of the earth, and we speak of earthly things, but he has come from
heaven and is greater than anyone else.
33 He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but
how few believe what he tells them!
34 Anyone who accepts his testimony can affirm that God
is true.
35 For he is sent by God. He speaks God’s words, for God
gives him the Spirit without limit.
36 The Father loves his Son and has put everything into
his hands.
37 And anyone who believes in God’s Son has eternal
life. Anyone who doesn’t obey the Son will never experience eternal life but
remains under God’s angry judgment.”
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