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In the beginning the Word already existed; the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

From the very beginning the Word was with God.

Through him God made all things; not one thing in all creation was made without him.

God sent his messenger, a man named John,

The Word was in the world, and though God made the world through him, yet the world did not recognize him.

They did not become God's children by natural means, that is, by being born as the children of a human father; God himself was their Father.

God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

The next day John saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "There is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

I still did not know that he was the one, but God, who sent me to baptize with water, had said to me, ‘You will see the Spirit come down and stay on a man; he is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

I have seen it," said John, "and I tell you that he is the Son of God."

when he saw Jesus walking by. "There is the Lamb of God!" he said.

"Teacher," answered Nathanael, "you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!"

His disciples remembered that the scripture says, "My devotion to your house, O God, burns in me like a fire."

One night he went to Jesus and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent by God. No one could perform the miracles you are doing unless God were with him."

Jesus answered, "I am telling you the truth: no one can see the Kingdom of God without being born again."

"I am telling you the truth," replied Jesus, "that no one can enter the Kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit.

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior.

But those who do what is true come to the light in order that the light may show that what they did was in obedience to God.