John 1:1

The Passion Translation

In the beginning the Living Expression was already there. And the Living Expression was with God, yet fully God.

Cross References

Genesis 1:1

When God created the heavens and the earth,

Psalm 45:6

Your glory-kingdom, O God, endures forever, for you are enthroned to rule with a justice-scepter in your hand!

Isaiah 7:14

The Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold—the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and will name him God Among Us.

Isaiah 9:6

A child has been born for us; a son has been given to us. The responsibility of complete dominion will rest on his shoulders, and his name will be: the Wonderful One, the Extraordinary Strategist, the Mighty God, the Father of Eternity, the Prince of Peace!

Matthew 1:23

Listen! A virgin will be pregnant, she will give birth to a Son, and he will be known as “Emmanuel,” which means in Hebrew, “God became one of us.”

Luke 24:53

Every day they went to the temple, to praise and worship God.

John 1:14

And so the Living Expression became a man and lived among us! We gazed upon his glory, the glory of the One and Only who came from the Father overflowing with tender mercy and truth!

John 1:18

No one ever before gazed upon the full splendor of God except his uniquely beloved Son, who is cherished by the Father and held close to his heart. Now that he has come to us, he has unfolded the full explanation of who God truly is!

John 1:2

They were together—face-to-face, in the very beginning.

John 16:28

I came to you sent from the Father’s presence, and I entered into the created world, and now I will leave this world and return to the Father’s side.”

John 17:5

So my Father, restore me back to the glory that we shared together when we were face-to-face before the universe was created.”

John 20:28

Then the words spilled out of his heart—“You are my Lord, and you are my God!”

John 8:58

Jesus said to them, “I give you this eternal truth: I have existed long before Abraham was born, for I AM!”

Romans 9:5

We trace our beginnings back to the patriarchs, and through their bloodline is the genealogy of the Messiah, who is God over everything. May he be praised through endless ages! Amen!

Ephesians 3:9

My passion is to enlighten every person to this divine mystery. It was hidden for ages past until now, and kept a secret in the heart of God, the Creator of all.

Philippians 2:6

He existed in the form of God, yet he gave no thought to seizing equality with God as his supreme prize.

Colossians 1:15

He is the divine portrait, the true likeness of the invisible God, and the firstborn heir of all creation.

Colossians 1:17

He existed before anything was made, and now everything finds completion in him.

1 Timothy 3:16

For the mystery of righteousness is beyond all question! He was revealed as a human being, and as our great High Priest in the Spirit! Angels gazed upon him as a man and the glorious message of his kingly rulership is being preached to the nations! Many have believed in him and he has been taken back to heaven, and has ascended into the place of exalted glory in the heavenly realm. Yes, great is this mystery of righteousness!

Titus 2:13

For we continue to wait for the fulfillment of our hope in the dawning splendor of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus, the Anointed One.

Hebrews 13:8

Jesus, the Anointed One, is always the same—yesterday, today, and forever.

Hebrews 7:3

This Melchizedek has no father or mother, and no record of any of his ancestors. He was never born and he never died, but his life is like a picture of the Son of God, a King-Priest forever!

2 Peter 1:1

This letter is from Simeon Peter, a loving servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ. I am writing to those who have been given a faith as equally precious 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 made our understanding come alive so that we can know by experience the One who is true. And we are in him who is true, God’s Son, Jesus Christ—the true God and eternal life!

1 John 5:7

So we have these three constant witnesses giving their evidence:

Revelation 1:11

saying to me: 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 down at his feet as good as dead, but he laid his right hand on me and I heard his reassuring voice saying: Don’t yield to fear. I am the Beginning and I am the End,

Revelation 1:2

I, John, bore witness to the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

Revelation 1:8

“I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the ending,” says the Lord God, “who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

Revelation 19:13

He wore a robe dipped in blood, and his title is called the Word of God.

Revelation 2:8

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Smyrna. For these are the words of the one who is the Beginning and the End, the one who became a corpse, but came back to life:

Revelation 21:6

Then he said to me, “It has been accomplished! For I am the Aleph and the Tav, the beginning and the end. I will give water to all who are thirsty. As my gracious gift, they will continuously drink from the fountain of living water.

Revelation 22:13

I am the Aleph and the Tav, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the Completion.”

Revelation 3:14

Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea, for these are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation: