he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
John 1:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. , Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition There it was–the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. [Isa. 49:6.] American Standard Version (1901) There was the true light, even the light which lighteth every man, coming into the world. Common English Bible The true light that shines on all people was coming into the world. Catholic Public Domain Version The true Light, which illuminates every man, was coming into this world. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world. |
he says, ‘It is not enough for you to be my servant raising up the tribes of Jacob and restoring the protected ones of Israel. I will also make you a light for the nations, to be my salvation to the ends of the earth.’
Go to God’s instruction and testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. So if the light within you is darkness, how deep is that darkness!
If, therefore, your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, it will be entirely illuminated, as when a lamp shines its light on you.’
He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe through him.
I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me would not remain in darkness.
Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Jesus said to them, ‘Truly I tell you, Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven.
And there was a lot of murmuring about him among the crowds. Some were saying, ‘He’s a good man.’ Others were saying, ‘No, on the contrary, he’s deceiving the people.’
If we say, ‘We have no sin,’ we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know the true one. We are in the true one #– #that is, in his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.