Psalm 36:5-9

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⁵Your love, Lord, reaches to the heavens,
    your faithfulness^(A) to the skies.^(B)
⁶Your righteousness^(C) is like the highest mountains,^(D)
    your justice like the great deep.^(E)
    You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.^(F)
⁷How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!^(G)
    People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.^(H)
⁸They feast on the abundance of your house;^(I)
    you give them drink from your river^(J) of delights.^(K)
⁹For with you is the fountain of life;^(L)
    in your light^(M) we see light.

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John 1:9-14

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⁹The true light^(A) that gives light to everyone^(B) was coming into the world. ¹⁰He was in the world, and though the world was made through him,^(C) the world did not recognize him. ¹¹He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.^(D) ¹²Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed^(E) in his name,^(F) he gave the right to become children of God^(G)— ¹³children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.^(H)

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

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