John 1:10

Easy To Read Version

The Word {\cf2\super [4]} was already in the world. The world was made through him. But the world (people) did not know him.

Cross References

Genesis 16:13

The Lord talked to Hagar. Hagar began to use a new name for God. She said to him, “You are ‘God Who Sees Me.’” She said this because she thought, “I see that even in this place God sees me and cares for me!”

Genesis 17:1

When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. The Lord said, “I am God All-Powerful. [91] Do these things for me: Obey me and live the right way.

Genesis 18:33

The Lord was finished speaking to Abraham, so the Lord left. And Abraham went back to his home.

Isaiah 53:3

People made fun of him, and his friends left him. He was a man that had much pain. He knew sickness very well. People did not even give him the honor of looking at him. We did not even notice him.

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me all things. No person knows the Son—only the Father knows the Son. And no person knows the Father—only the Son knows the Father. And the only people that will know about the Father are those people the Son chooses to tell.

John 1:11

He came to the world that was his own. But his own people did not accept him.

John 1:18

No man has ever seen God. But the only Son (Jesus) is God. He is very close to the Father {\cf2\super [7]} (God). And the Son has shown us what God is like.

John 1:3

All things were made through him (the Word). Nothing was made without him.

John 1:5

The Light shines in the darkness. The darkness has not defeated {\cf2\super [2]} the Light.

John 17:25

Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you. And these people know that you sent me.

John 5:17

But Jesus said to the Jews, “My Father never stops working. And so I work too.”

Acts 14:17

But God was always there doing things that prove he is real. He gives you rain from the sky. He gives you good harvests at the right times. He gives you plenty of food, and he fills your hearts with joy.”

1 Corinthians 1:21

This is what God with his wisdom wanted: The world did not know God through the world’s own wisdom. So God used the message {\cf2\super [8]} that sounds foolish to save the people that believe it.

1 Corinthians 2:8

None of the rulers of this world understood this wisdom. If they had understood it, then they would not have killed our glorious Lord on a cross.

1 Corinthians 8:6

But for us there is only one God. He is our Father. All things came from him and we live for him. And there is only one Lord. He is Jesus Christ. All things were made through Jesus, and we also have life through him.

Colossians 1:16

Through his power all things were made—things in heaven and on earth, things seen and not seen, all \{spiritual\} powers, authorities, lords, and rulers. All things were made through Christ and for Christ.

Hebrews 11:3

Faith helps us understand that God created the whole world with his command. This means that the things we see were made by something that cannot be seen.

1 John 3:1

The Father (God) has loved us so much! This shows how much he loved us: We are called children of God. And we really are God’s children. But the people in the world (people who don’t believe) don’t understand that we are God’s children, because they have not known him (God).