John 1:1-18

1In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 1God, and the Word was 2God.

2He was in the beginning with 3God.

3All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.

4In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

5And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

6There was a man sent from 4God, his name John.

7He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.

8He was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.

9The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.

10He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.

11He came to his own, and his own received him not;

12but as many as received him, to them gave he [the] right to be children of 5God, to those that believe on his name;

13who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh's will, nor of man's will, but of 6God.

14And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

15(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;)

16for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.

17For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

18No one has seen 7God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].