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John 1:4
English Standard Version
John 1:4
English Standard Version
4 (A)In him was life,[a] and (B)the life was the light of men.
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- John 1:4 Or was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him
John 1:4
Amplified Bible
John 1:4
Amplified Bible
4 In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men.
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John 1:4-5
The Message
John 1:4-5
The Message
3-5 Everything was created through him;
nothing—not one thing!—
came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
John 1:4
New International Version
John 1:4
New International Version
John 1:4-5
Amplified Bible
John 1:4-5
Amplified Bible
4 In Him was life [and the power to bestow life], and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines on in the [a]darkness, and the darkness did not understand it or overpower it or appropriate it or absorb it [and is unreceptive to it].(A)
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- John 1:5 I.e. the world immersed in sin: all that stands in opposition to God and biblical truth.
John 1:4-5
The Message
John 1:4-5
The Message
3-5 Everything was created through him;
nothing—not one thing!—
came into being without him.
What came into existence was Life,
and the Life was Light to live by.
The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;
the darkness couldn’t put it out.
English Standard Version (ESV) 
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New International Version (NIV) 
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