Years ago I had opportunity to listen to Dr. S. Lewis Johnson’s sermon on John 3:16. Highly recommend it either audio or text versions, he very clearly speaks about the “world”. https://sljinstitute.net/gospel-of-john/the-greatest-text-of-all/
by Mike Ratliff
16 οὕτως γὰρ ἠγάπησεν ὁ θεὸς τὸν κόσμον, ὥστε τὸν υἱὸν τὸν μονογενῆ ἔδωκεν, ἵνα πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων εἰς αὐτὸν μὴ ἀπόληται ἀλλʼ ἔχῃ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. John 3:16 (NA28)
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only son that everyone believing in Him should not perish but have life eternal.John 3:16 (translated from the NA28 Greek text)
The first verse I memorized in Sunday School as a child was John 3:16 from the King James Bible. This must have been sometime around 1956-1957 since I did not learn to read until the 1st grade. My mother even had a plaque made with that verse on it and put it on the wall over my bed. I still have the little white New Testament I got for memorizing the most verses in my class that year. So what? When I look back…
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