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The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness and truth.
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However, he gave the right to become God's children to everyone who believed in him.
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These people didn't become God's children in a physical way--from a human impulse or from a husband's desire [to have a child]. They were born from God.
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The Word became human and lived among us. We saw his glory. It was the glory that the Father shares with his only Son, a glory full of kindness and truth.
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(John declared the truth about him when he said loudly, "This is the person about whom I said, 'The one who comes after me was before me because he existed before I did.'")
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Each of us has received one gift after another because of all that the Word is.