John 1:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

When God began to create the heavens and the earth,

Psalm 45:6

Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever. Your royal scepter is a scepter of equity;

Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel.

Isaiah 9:6

For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Matthew 1:23

“Look, the virgin shall become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.”

Luke 24:53

and they were continually in the temple blessing God.

John 1:14

And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.

John 1:18

No one has ever seen God. It is the only Son, himself God, who is close to the Father’s heart, who has made him known.

John 1:2

He was in the beginning with God.

John 16:28

I came from the Father and have come into the world; again, I am leaving the world and am going to the Father.”

John 17:5

So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.

John 20:28

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, before Abraham was, I am.”

Romans 9:5

to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

Ephesians 3:9

and to make everyone see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God, who created all things,

Philippians 2:6

who, though he existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,

Colossians 1:15

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation,

Colossians 1:17

He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

1 Timothy 3:16

Without any doubt, the mystery of godliness is great: He was revealed in flesh, vindicated in spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among gentiles, believed in throughout the world, taken up in glory.

Titus 2:13

while we wait for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Hebrews 7:3

Without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life but resembling the Son of God, he remains a priest forever.

2 Peter 1:1

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith as equally honorable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

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.

1 John 5:7

There are three that testify:

Revelation 1:11

saying, “Write in a book what you see, and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamum, to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:17

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he placed his right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the First and the Last

Revelation 1:2

who testified to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.

Revelation 19:13

He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God.

Revelation 2:8

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: These are the words of the First and the Last, who was dead and came to life:

Revelation 21:6

Then he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Revelation 3:14

“And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the origin of God’s creation: