[1:1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
[1:2] He was in the beginning with God.
[1:3] All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
[1:4] In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
[1:5] The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
[1:6] There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
[1:7] He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
[1:8] He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.
[1:9] The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.
[1:10] He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
[1:11] He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
[1:12] But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
[1:13] who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
[1:14] And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
[1:15] (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”)
[1:16] For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.
[1:17] For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
[1:18] No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.