John 1:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ There it was–the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. [Isa. 49:6.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world.

Common English Bible

⁹ The true light that shines on all people was coming into the world.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.

John 1:9 Cross References

Isaiah 49:6

he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”

Isaiah 8:20

for teaching and for instruction?” surely those who speak like this will have no dawn!

Matthew 6:23

but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

Luke 11:36

But if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be as full of light as when a lamp gives you light with its rays.”

John 1:4

in him was life, and the life was the light of all people.

John 1:7

He came as a witness to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him.

John 12:46

I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 15:1

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower.

John 6:32

Then Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

John 7:12

And there was considerable complaining about him among the crowds. While some were saying, “He is a good man,” others were saying, “No, he is deceiving the crowd.”

1 John 1:8

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 2:8

Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.

1 John 5:20

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.