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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Subject: Are we ever "worthy" of God's love? |
Bible Note: Greetings John! See, this is exactly what I was trying to avoid! :-) So, this is my last post on this particular issue, not out of anger, but simply because it must stop somewhere! :-) The issue is not the meaning of the term 'you'. The 'you' definitely refers to his audience. However, the issue is the next clause where the pronoun 'you' is not used. There, we find an unmodified indefinite pronoun which every translation translates as 'any'. This is further defined in the next clause with the adjective 'all'. Unmodified by 'you', 'any' and 'all' refers to each individual grammatically. If the clause said, 'all of you' or 'any of you', then your interpretation would be correct grammatically. But, this is not the text that we find in 2 Pet. 3:9. Thus, I respectfully disagree with your limiting of the indefinite pronoun 'any' and of the adjective 'all' since the text does not limit it. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |