John 1:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ For while the Law was given through Moses, grace (unearned, undeserved favor and spiritual blessing) and truth came through Jesus Christ. [Exod. 20:1.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ as the Law was given through Moses, so grace and truth came into being through Jesus Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ For the law was given though Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

John 1:17 Cross References

Genesis 22:18

and by your descendants shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because you have obeyed my voice.”

Genesis 3:15

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Psalm 85:10

Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other.

Psalm 98:3

He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the victory of our God.

Micah 7:20

Thou wilt show faithfulness to Jacob and steadfast love to Abraham, as thou hast sworn to our fathers from the days of old.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me.

John 18:37

Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I have come into the world, to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice.”

John 5:45

Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you set your hope.

John 7:19

Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?”

John 8:32

and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

John 9:29

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”

Acts 28:23

When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in great numbers. And he expounded the matter to them from morning till evening, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the law of Moses and from the prophets.

Acts 7:38

This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers; and he received living oracles to give to us.

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

2 Corinthians 1:20

For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God.

Galatians 3:17

This is what I mean: the law, which came four hundred and thirty years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.

Deuteronomy 33:4

when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.

Deuteronomy 4:44

This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel;

Deuteronomy 5:1

And Moses summoned all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your hearing this day, and you shall learn them and be careful to do them.

Hebrews 9:22

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.