John 1:1-18 Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

Prologue

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was with God in the beginning. ³ All things were created through him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. ⁴ In him was life,^[a] and that life was the light of men. ⁵ That light shines in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome^[b] it.

⁶ There was a man sent from God whose name was John. ⁷ He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.^{[c] 8} He was not the light, but he came to testify about the light. ⁹ The true light that gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.^[d]

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was created through him, and yet the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. ¹² But to all who did receive him, he gave them the right to be^[e] children of God, to those who believe in his name, ¹³ who were born, not of natural descent,^[f] or of the will of the flesh, or of the will of man,^[g] but of God.

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and dwelt^[h] among us. We observed his glory, the glory as the one and only Son^[i] from the Father, full of grace and truth. ¹⁵ (John testified concerning him and exclaimed, “This was the one of whom I said, ‘The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me.’”) ¹⁶ Indeed, we have all received grace upon^[j] grace from his fullness, ¹⁷ for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ¹⁸ No one has ever seen God. The one and only Son, who is himself God and is at the Father’s side^[k]—he has revealed him.