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John 1:1-18

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1 In the beginning was the word, and the word was at God, and God was the word. [In the beginning was the word, that is, God's Son, and the word was at God, and God was the word.]
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 This was in the beginning at God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 All things were made by him, and without him was made nothing [nought], that thing that was made.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men;
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
5 and the light shineth in darknesses, and [the] darknesses comprehended not it.
5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 A man was sent from God, to whom the name was John.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
7 This man came into witnessing, that he should bear witnessing of the light, that all men should believe by him.
7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe.
8 He was not that light, but that he should bear witnessing of the light.
8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 There was a very light, which lighteneth each man that cometh into this world [that lighteth each man coming into this world].
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.
10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
11 He came into his own things, and his received him not.
11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
12 But how many ever received him, he gave to them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name;
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
13 the which not of bloods [which not of bloods], neither of the will of flesh, neither of the will of man, but be born of God.
13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 And the word was made man, and dwelled among us, and we have seen the glory of him, as the glory of the one begotten Son of the Father, full of grace and of truth. [And the word, that is, God's Son, is made flesh, or man, and hath dwelled in us, and we have seen the glory of him, the glory as of the one begotten of the Father, the Son full of grace and truth.]
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John beareth witnessing of him, and crieth, and saith, This is he of whom I said, He that shall come after me, is made before me [saying, This it was, whom I said, He that cometh after me, is made before me], for he was before me;
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’ ”)
16 and of the plenty of him we all have taken, and grace for grace.
16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
17 For the law was given by Moses; but grace and truth is made by Jesus Christ.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No man saw ever God [No man ever saw God], but the one begotten Son, that is in the bosom of the Father, he hath told out.
18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
Copyright © 2001 by Terence P. Noble. For personal use only.
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