John 3

2 songs checked against John 3. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

John 3:16 · “To God Be the Glory” · Fanny Crosby (recorded by Reawaken Hymns)

NOT A QUOTE “To God Be the Glory” Fanny Crosby (recorded by Reawaken Hymns) John 3:16 Sing it. Nothing in it is offered as scripture. Stanza one restates John 3:16 in Crosby's own words, and the tie to that verse was made by hymn scholars, not by the song.

✓ Nothing in the sung words is offered as a quotation. No verse is named, and no line is framed as scripture, so nobody is asked to take a paraphrase for the text

⚠ Stanza one restates John 3:16 without the two outcomes the verse ends on. Crosby's text never uses perish, eternal or everlasting, in the two sung stanzas or in the third

John 3:16-17 · “God So Loved” · We The Kingdom

~ FAITHFUL “God So Loved” We The Kingdom John 3:16-17 Sing it. The chorus walks through John 3:16 clause by clause, lightly reworded and never labeled. The verse's own alternative, shall not perish, stays unsung, so read the whole sentence once for yourself.

✓ The chorus keeps John 3:16's clauses in the verse's own order: love, gift, belief, life

⚠ No translation is named, so the near-quotation has to be recognized rather than checked

Browse every song →