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9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.
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The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him.
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He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
11 He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him.
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He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
12 But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God,
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Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—
13 who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God.
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children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father's only son, full of grace and truth.
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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 testified to him and cried out, "This was he of whom I said, "He who comes after me ranks ahead of me because he was before me.' ")
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(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 From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
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Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given.
17 The law indeed was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son, who is close to the Father's heart, who has made him known.
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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.
19 This is the testimony given by John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"
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Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
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