He was in the beginning with God.
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth—
then was I beside him as artisan; I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while,
I say I will not mention him, I will no longer speak in his name. But then it is as if fire is burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding back, I cannot!
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be
