16 For this is the way 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.
16 For God soD7473 loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoeverD7474 believes onD7475 him may not perish, but have life eternal.
so - I have hesitated a moment whether 'so' referred to the kind of love that gives 'eternal life,' which is mentioned in verse 15, and is the great subject of John, in contrast with all earthly blessings and favour. The sense then would thus be, that he has loved men in view of eternal life, 'so that' he has given, &c. (See 'so,' Acts 14. 1.) When followed by 'that,' the regular force of the Greek is, 'so much that.' whosoever - Lit. 'every one who,' as ver. 15. on - Eis, as in ver. 36; chs. 4.39; 6.29,35,40.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
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