John 1:1-18

The Word Became Flesh

1 ¹In the beginning was ²the Word, and ³the Word was with God, and ⁴the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 ⁵All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 ⁶In him was life, ^[a] and ⁷the life was the light of men.

5 ⁸The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

6 There was a man ⁹sent from God, whose name was ¹⁰John.

7 He came as a ¹¹witness, to bear witness about the light, ¹²that all might believe through him.

8 ¹³He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

9 ¹⁴The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet ¹⁵the world did not know him.

11 He came to ¹⁶his own, ^[b] and ¹⁷his own people^{[c] 18}did not receive him.

12 But to all who did receive him, ¹⁹who believed in his name, ²⁰he gave the right ²¹to become ²²children of God,

13 who ²³were born, ²⁴not of blood ²⁵nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And ²⁶the Word ²⁷became flesh and ²⁸dwelt among us, ²⁹and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of ³⁰grace and ³¹truth.

15 ( ³²John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ³³‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me. ’”)

16 For from ³⁴his fullness we have all received, ³⁵grace upon grace. ^[d]

17 For ³⁶the law was given through Moses; ³⁷grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18 ³⁸No one has ever seen God; ³⁹the only God, ^[e] who is at the Father’s side, ^{[f] 40}he has made him known.

Cross References

• 1. 1:1 Gen. 1:1; [Col. 1:17; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 1:4, 8, 17; 3:14; 21:6; 22:13]
• 2. 1:1 Rev. 19:13; [Heb. 4:12; 1 John 1:1]
• 3. 1:1 1 John 1:2; [ch. 17:5]
• 4. 1:1 Phil. 2:6
• 5. 1:3 ver. 10; Ps. 33:6; 1 Cor. 8:6; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2
• 6. 1:4 ch. 5:26; 11:25; 1 John 1:2; 5:11
• 7. 1:4 ch. 8:12; 9:5; 12:46
• 8. 1:5 [ch. 3:19]
• 9. 1:6 ver. 33; ch. 3:28; Mal. 3:1
• 10. 1:6 Matt. 3:1; Mark 1:4; Luke 3:2
• 11. 1:7 ch. 3:26; 5:33
• 12. 1:7 Acts 19:4
• 13. 1:8 ver. 20
• 14. 1:9 Isa. 49:6; 1 John 2:8
• 15. 1:10 [ch. 16:3; 1 John 3:1]
• 16. 1:11 Matt. 21:38
• 17. 1:11 ch. 13:1
• 18. 1:11 ch. 5:43; [ch. 3:11, 32]
• 19. 1:12 See 1 John 5:13
• 20. 1:12 1 John 5:1
• 21. 1:12 1 John 3:1; [Matt. 5:45]
• 22. 1:12 [Gal. 3:26]; See ch. 11:52
• 23. 1:13 James 1:18; [ch. 3:3; 1 Pet. 1:3]
• 24. 1:13 1 Pet. 1:23
• 25. 1:13 ch. 3:6
• 26. 1:14 ver. 1
• 27. 1:14 Rom. 1:3; 8:3; Gal. 4:4; Phil. 2:7, 8; Col. 1:22; 1 Tim. 3:16; Heb. 2:14; 1 John 4:2; 2 John 7; [ch. 6:51]
• 28. 1:14 Rev. 7:15; 21:3
• 29. 1:14 ch. 2:11; Luke 9:32; 2 Pet. 1:16, 17; 1 John 1:1; 4:14
• 30. 1:14 See ver. 7
• 31. 1:14 [ch. 14:6]
• 32. 1:15 See ver. 7
• 33. 1:15 ver. 27, 30; See Matt. 3:11
• 34. 1:16 Eph. 1:23; 3:19; 4:13; Col. 1:19; 2:9
• 35. 1:16 [Matt. 25:29]
• 36. 1:17 ch. 7:19; Ex. 20:1
• 37. 1:17 ver. 14; [Rom. 5:21]
• 38. 1:18 ch. 5:37; 6:46; Ex. 33:20; Col. 1:15; 1 Tim. 6:16; 1 John 4:12, 20; [ch. 12:45]
• 39. 1:18 ver. 14; See ch. 3:16
• 40. 1:18 [Matt. 11:27]; See ch. 3:32

Footnotes

• [a] 1:4 Or 'was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him'
• [b] 1:11 Greek 'to his own things'; that is, to his own domain, or to his own people
• [c] 1:11 'People' is implied in Greek
• [d] 1:16 Or 'grace in place of grace'
• [e] 1:18 Or 'the only One, who is God'; some manuscripts 'the only Son'
• [f] 1:18 Greek 'in the bosom of the Father'