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John 1:1-18

The Word Became Flesh (Jn.1.1-18)

1¹ WHEN ALL THINGS BEGAN,
the Word already was.
The Word dwelt with God,
and what God was, the Word was.
² The Word, then, was with God at the beginning,
³ and through him all things came to be;
no single thing was created without him.
⁴ All that came to be was alive with his life,
and that life was the light of men.
⁵ The light shines on in the dark,
and the darkness has never quenched it.


⁶ There appeared a man named John, sent from God;
⁷ he came as a witness to testify to the light,
that all might become believers through him.
⁸ He was not himself the light;
he came to bear witness to the light.
⁹ The real light which enlightens every man
was even then coming into the world.


¹⁰ He was in the world;
but the world, though it owed its being to him,
did not recognize him.
¹¹ He entered his own realm,
and his own would not receive him.
¹² But to all who did receive him,
to those who have yielded him their allegiance,
he gave the right to become children of God,
¹³ not born of any human stock,
or by the fleshly desire of a human father,
but the offspring of God himself.
¹⁴ So the Word became flesh;
he came to dwell among us,
and we saw his glory,
such glory as befits the Father's only Son,
full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ Here is John's testimony to him:
he cried aloud,
'This is the man I meant when I said,
"He comes after me, but takes rank before me";
for before I was born, he already was.'


¹⁶ Out of his full store we have all received grace upon grace;
¹⁷ for while the Law was given through Moses,
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
¹⁸ No one has ever seen God;
but God's only Son,
he who is nearest to the Father's heart,
he has made him known.

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