John 1
Reading John chapter 1 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.
Verses 1–10
1 In [the] beginning was the Word, and the Word was withGod, and the Word wasGod.
2 He was in the beginning withGod.
3 All things received being through him, and without him not one [thing] received being which has received being.
4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light appears in darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.
6 There was a man sent fromGod, his name John.
7 He came for witness, that he might witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him.
8 He was not the light, but that he might witness concerning the light.
9 The true light was that which, coming into the world, lightens every man.
10 He was in the world, and the world had [its] being through him, and the world knew him not.
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