All things were created(A) through him,(B) and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life,[a](C) and that life was the light(D) of men. That light shines(E) in the darkness, and yet the darkness did not overcome[b] it.(F)

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  1. 1:3–4 Other punctuation is possible:... not one thing was created. What was created in him was life
  2. 1:5 Or grasp, or comprehend, or overtake; Jn 12:35

Everything came into being through the Word,
    and without the Word
    nothing came into being.
What came into being
    through the Word was life,[a]
    and the life was the light for all people.
The light shines in the darkness,
    and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light.

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  1. John 1:4 Or Everything came into being through the Word,/and without the Word / nothing came into being that came into being. In the Word was life