3 For I proved to be a real son to my father,+ tender and the only one before my mother.+

30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker,*+ and I came to be the one he* was specially fond+ of day by day, I being glad before him all the time,+

16 “For God loved+ the world* so much that he gave his only-begotten Son,+ in order that everyone exercising faith+ in him might not be destroyed+ but have everlasting life.+

17 This is why the Father loves me,+ because I surrender my soul,+ in order that I may receive it again.