23 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Eternal Life

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
• 1Pet 3:20 — Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
• 1Thess 5:9 — For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 1Tim 1:13 — Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2Chr 33:9 — So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
• 2Chr 33:19 — His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold,
• 2Cor 4:1 — Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
• 2Pet 3:9 — The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 2Pet 3:9 — The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• 2Pet 3:15 — And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
• 2Pet 3:15 — And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
• 2Thess 1:10 — When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
• Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
• Eph 1:6 — To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• Eph 1:12 — That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.
• Eph 2:7 — That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
• Eph 2:7 — That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
• Exod 34:8 — And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
• Ezek 20:44 — And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD
• Gen 43:14 — And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.
• Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Isa 1:18 — Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
• Isa 43:25 — I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
• Isa 54:8 — In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the LORD thy Redeemer.
• Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
• John 3:15 — That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
• John 3:36 — He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
• John 5:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
• John 6:37 — All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• John 6:37 — All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• John 6:40 — And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 6:54 — Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
• John 10:28 — And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
• John 17:2 — As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
• John 20:31 — But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
• Luke 7:47 — Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
• Luke 15:10 — Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
• Luke 18:13 — And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
• Luke 19:7 — And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.