John 1:1–18

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ²He was in the beginning with God. ³All things received being through him, and without him not one thing received being which has received being. ⁴In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁵And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not. ⁶There was a man sent from God, his name John. ⁷He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him. ⁸He was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light. ⁹The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man. ¹⁰He was in the world, and the world had its being through him, and the world knew him not. ¹¹He came to his own, and his own received him not; ¹²but as many as received him, to them gave he the right to be children of God, to those that believe on his name; ¹³who have been born, not of blood, nor of flesh’s will, nor of man’s will, but of God. ¹⁴And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

¹⁵(John bears witness of him, and he has cried, saying, This was he of whom I said, He that comes after me is preferred before me, for he was before me;) ¹⁶for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace. ¹⁷For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸No one has seen God at any time; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.