1Bữn manoaq tễ tỗp Pha-rasi, ramứh Ni-cudem. Án la tễ tỗp sốt cũai I-sarel. 2Bữn muoi sadâu án toâq pỡ Yê-su cớp pai neq: “Thâi ơi! Hếq khoiq dáng chơ thâi toâq tễ Yiang Sursĩ. Tỡ bữn noau têq táq ranáq salễh machớng thâi táq, khân Yiang Sursĩ ma tỡ bữn chuai yỗn táq máh ranáq ki.” 3Yê-su ta‑ỡi án neq: “Cứq atỡng mới samoât lứq, khân cũai aléq ma tỡ bữn sễt loah, án lứq tỡ têq hữm Yiang Sursĩ táq sốt.” 4Chơ Ni-cudem blớh loah Yê-su neq: “Nŏ́q cũai khoiq thâu ma têq sễt loah? Lứq aléq la tỡ têq mut noâng tâng púng mpiq cớp sễt loah muoi trỗ ễn!” 5Yê-su ta‑ỡi loah án neq: “Cứq atỡng mới samoât lứq, khân bữn cũai aléq ma tỡ bữn sễt na dỡq cớp na Raviei Yiang Sursĩ, cũai ki lứq tỡ têq mut tâng tỗp Yiang Sursĩ sốt. 6Khân cỡt na cũai la cũai sâng, ma khân cỡt na Raviei Yiang Sursĩ la bữn Raviei án tâng mứt pahỡm. 7Mới chỗi dớt tễ santoiq cứq pai, anhia cóq sễt loah. 8Patoat cuyal phát tê, chu léq án yoc ễ phát, lứq án phát chu ki. Mới têq sâng hỗ cuyal ki, ma mới tỡ dáng tễ léq án toâq, cớp tỡ dáng chu léq án pỡq. Machớng cuyal ki tê yỗn nheq tữh cũai ca sễt loah na Raviei Yiang Sursĩ.” 9Vớt Yê-su pai ngkíq Ni-cudem blớh loah neq: “Dớt ơiq! Nŏ́q têq cũai sễt loah?” 10Yê-su ta‑ỡi loah neq: “Mới la thâi atỡng cũai I-sarel, ma mới tỡ bữn sapúh ramứh nâi tỡ? 11Cứq atỡng mới samoât lứq, hếq atỡng tễ máh ramứh hếq khoiq dáng, cớp hếq aloŏh máh ramứh hếq khoiq hữm chơ, ma tỡ bữn noau tễ anhia noap santoiq hếq. 12Cứq khoiq atỡng anhia tễ máh ramứh tâng cutễq nâi, ma anhia tỡ bữn sa‑âm cứq, casỡn cứq atỡng máh ramứh tâng paloŏng ễn, nŏ́q têq anhia sa‑âm? 13Tỡ nai bữn cũai chỗn chu paloŏng. Bữn ống manoaq sâng khoiq chỗn chu paloŏng. Manoaq nâi la Con Yiang Cỡt Cũai, án ca khoiq sễng tễ paloŏng. 14“Tễ mbŏ́q Môi-se ayŏ́ng cusân sapoan tâng ntốq aiq. Nỡ‑ra noau ayŏ́ng Con Yiang Cỡt Cũai machớng ki tê. 15Ngkíq, khân cũai aléq ma sa‑âm án, cũai ki bữn tamoong mantái níc. 16Yiang Sursĩ bữn ống muoi lám Con sâng. Cỗ án ayooq lứq nheq tữh cũai, ngkíq án yỗn Con án sễng ỡt tâng cutễq nâi. Cũai aléq sa‑âm Con án, raviei cũai ki tỡ nai cuchĩt pứt, ma bữn tamoong mantái. 17Yiang Sursĩ tỡ bữn ớn Con án sễng pỡ cutễq nâi dŏq sữq cũai, ma Yiang Sursĩ yoc ễ chuai amoong nheq tữh cũai cỗ nhơ tễ Con án. 18“Cũai aléq khoiq sa‑âm Con Yiang Sursĩ, Yiang Sursĩ lứq tỡ bữn táq cũai ki. Ma cũai aléq tỡ bữn sa‑âm, Yiang Sursĩ dadŏq ễ táq cũai ki, cỗ cũai ki tỡ bữn sa‑âm Con Yiang Sursĩ. 19Yiang Sursĩ dadŏq ễ táq cũai la cỗ neq: Ŏ́c poang khoiq toâq pỡ cutễq nâi, ma cũai pasếq ŏ́c canám hỡn tễ ŏ́c poang, yuaq ranáq alới táq la sâuq. 20Nheq tữh cũai ca táq ranáq sâuq kêt lứq ŏ́c poang. Alới tỡ ễq ễ toâq pỡ ŏ́c poang, yuaq alới ngcŏh noau dáng tễ máh ranáq sâuq alới táq. 21Ma cũai aléq ca puai ranáq pĩeiq, alới yoc lứq toâq pỡ ŏ́c poang. Alới yoc ŏ́c poang apáh alới trĩh nheq máh ngê Yiang Sursĩ yoc alới táq.”
Yang Ca Táq Batễm Atỡng Ễn Tễ Yê-su
22Moâm Yê-su pai ngkíq, án cớp tỗp rien tễ án mut tâng cruang Yudê. Alới ỡt pỡ ki táq batễm yỗn cũai. 23Bo ki Yang táq batễm tâng ntốq Anôn cheq vil Salim, yuaq ntốq ki bữn sa‑ữi dỡq. Cớp máh cũai toâq níc pỡ Yang ễq án táq batễm yỗn alới. 24(Bo ki, noau tỡ yũah chóq Yang tâng cuaq tũ.) 25Vớt ki tỗp rien tễ Yang rasuon cớp manoaq cũai I-sarel tễ rit sambráh. 26Chơ tỗp rien tễ Yang toâq pỡ Yang cớp atỡng án neq: “Thâi ơi! Manoaq ca ỡt cớp thâi, bo thâi ỡt yáng ki crỗng Yôr-dan, án ca thâi khoiq atỡng yỗn hếq dáng, sanua án táq batễm yỗn cũai tê. Cớp nheq tữh cũai toâq pỡ án.” 27Yang ta‑ỡi alới neq: “Cũai tỡ têq bữn muoi ramứh ntrớu, khân Yiang Sursĩ tỡ bữn yỗn án bữn. 28Anhia dáng chơ cứq khoiq pai neq: ‘Cứq tỡ cỡn Crĩt. Ma Yiang Sursĩ ớn cứq toâq nhũang Crĩt.’ 29Ŏ́c nâi la samoât parnai sacâm neq: Khân bữn manoaq pỡq racoâiq lacuoi, yớu án têq pỡq parnơi cớp án. Ma yớu tỡ têq ndỡm lacuoi án. Manoaq án toâp têq ndỡm. Ma yớu ca pỡq cantrĩng ki, alới lứq sâng bũi tê. Ngkíq cứq la machớng yớu ki tê. Sanua cứq bữn moang ŏ́c bũi óh, yuaq Crĩt khoiq toâq chơ. 30Án ki cóq cỡt toâr achỗn, ma cứq cóq cỡt cacớt asễng. 31“Án ca toâq tễ pỡng, án toâr clữi nheq tễ canŏ́h. Án ca toâq tễ cutễq, án sốt ống tâng cutễq, cớp án atỡng tễ ramứh tâng cutễq sâng. Ma án ca toâq tễ paloŏng, án toâr nheq tễ canŏ́h. 32Án ki atỡng máh ramứh án khoiq hữm cớp sâng chơ, ma tỡ bữn noau yoc ễ tamứng santoiq án. 33Aléq noap santoiq án pai, cũai ki ngin Yiang Sursĩ la pĩeiq lứq. 34Yiang Sursĩ khoiq ớn Yê-su toâq atỡng parnai Yiang Sursĩ. Yuaq ngkíq, Yiang Sursĩ yỗn Yê-su bữn moang Raviei án. 35Mpoaq ayooq Con, cớp chiau túc ramứh yỗn án cỡt sốt. 36Cũai aléq sa‑âm Con Yiang Sursĩ, cũai ki lứq bữn tamoong mantái. Ma cũai aléq tỡ bữn trĩh Con ki, cũai ki tỡ nai bữn tamoong mantái, ma Yiang Sursĩ dadŏq níc ễ táq án.”
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The New Birth
1There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2⚓This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for ⚓no one can do these signs that You do unless ⚓God is with him.” 3Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ⚓unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” 5Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, ⚓unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.6That which is born of the flesh is ⚓flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8⚓The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” 9Nicodemus answered and said to Him, ⚓“How can these things be?” 10Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things?11⚓Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and ⚓you do not receive Our witness.12If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?13⚓No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.14⚓And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so ⚓must the Son of Man be lifted up,15that whoever ⚓believes in Him should not perish but⚓have eternal life.16⚓For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten ⚓Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.17⚓For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18⚓“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.19And this is the condemnation, ⚓that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.20For ⚓everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.21But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been ⚓done in God.”
John the Baptist Exalts Christ
22After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He remained with them ⚓and baptized. 23Now John also was baptizing in Aenon near ⚓Salim, because there was much water there. ⚓And they came and were baptized. 24For ⚓John had not yet been thrown into prison. 25Then there arose a dispute between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purification. 26And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, ⚓to whom you have testified—behold, He is baptizing, and all ⚓are coming to Him!” 27John answered and said, ⚓“A man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, ⚓‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ⚓‘I have been sent before Him.’ 29⚓He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but ⚓the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled. 30⚓He must increase, but I must decrease. 31⚓He who comes from above ⚓is above all; ⚓he who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth. ⚓He who comes from heaven is above all. 32And ⚓what He has seen and heard, that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony. 33He who has received His testimony ⚓has certified that God is true. 34⚓For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit ⚓by measure. 35⚓The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. 36⚓He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the ⚓wrath of God abides on him.”