17 For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
17 „Maana Mungu hakumtuma Mwanawe ulimwenguni ili auhukumu ulimwengu, bali ulimwengu uokolewe katika yeye. 18 Amwaminiye yeye hahukumiwi; asiyeamini amekwisha kuhukumiwa, kwa sababu hakuliamini jina la Mwana pekee wa Mungu. 19 Na hii ndio hukumu, ya kuwa nuru imekuja ulimwenguni, na watu wakapenda giza kuliko nuru, kwa maana matendo yao yalikuwa maovu. 20 Maana kila mtu atendaye mabaya huichukia nuru, wala haji kwenye nuru, matendo yake yasije yakakemewa.