^13 (A)He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called ^(B)The Word of God. ^14 (C)And the armies in heaven, ^(D)clothed in ^[a]fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. ¹⁵ Now ^(E)out of His mouth goes a ^[b]sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And ^(F)He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. ^(G)He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. ¹⁶ And ^(H)He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written:

^(I)KING OF KINGS AND
LORD OF LORDS.

The Word Becomes Flesh

^14 (A)And the Word ^(B)became ^(C)flesh and dwelt among us, and ^(D)we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, ^(E)full of grace and truth.

⁵ For this they willfully forget: that ^(A)by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth ^(B)standing out of water and in the water, ^6 (C)by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. ⁷ But ^(D)the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for ^(E)fire until the day of judgment and ^[a]perdition of ungodly men.

^23 (A)having been born again, not of ^[a]corruptible seed but ^[b]incorruptible, ^(B)through the word of God which lives and abides ^[c]forever,

^(B)Now this is the word which by the gospel was preached to you.

³ By faith we understand that ^(A)the ^[a]worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.