The Glory of Zion

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^(A) behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror;^(B) then we shall see face to face.^(C) Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.^(D)

¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.^(E) But the greatest of these is love.^(F)

¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,^(A) the world did not recognize him. ¹¹ He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.^{(B) 12} Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed^(C) in his name,^(D) he gave the right to become children of God^(E)— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.^(F)

¹⁴ The Word became flesh^(G) and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory,^(H) the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace^(I) and truth.^(J)

¹⁵ (John testified^(K) 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.’”)^{(L) 16} Out of his fullness^(M) we have all received grace^(N) in place of grace already given. ¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses;^(O) grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.^{(P) 18} No one has ever seen God,^(Q) but the one and only Son, who is himself God and^[a](R) is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.