John 1:4-5

New Living Translation

⁴The Word gave life to everything that was created,^[a]
and his life brought light to everyone.
⁵The light shines in the darkness,
and the darkness can never extinguish it.^[b]

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1:3-4 Or and nothing that was created was created except through him. The Word gave life to everything.
1:5 Or and the darkness has not understood it.

John 1:4-5

English Standard Version

⁴^(A)In him was life,^[a] and ^(B)the life was the light of men. ⁵^(C)The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

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John 1:4 Or was not any thing made. That which has been made was life in him

John 1:4-5

King James Version

⁴In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

⁵And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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