the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us—
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.
in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
You know that he appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law,
And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God.
So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.
beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.
And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.”
I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
I know him, for I come from him, and he sent me.”
No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.
No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—
“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
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