John 1:4-5

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4 ¹In him was life, ^[a] and ²the life was the light of men.

5 ³The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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John 1:29

John 1:29

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1. 1:4 ch. 5:26; 11:25; 1 John 1:2; 5:11
2. 1:4 ch. 8:12; 9:5; 12:46
3. 1:5 [ch. 3:19]

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[a] 1:4 Or 'was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him'

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