John 1:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

In it was lyfe, and the lyfe was the lyght of men,

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  • John 8:12 : 12 Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, saying, I am the light of ye world: He that foloweth me, doth not walke in darknesse, but shal haue the light of life.
  • John 11:25 : 25 Iesus sayth vnto her, I am the resurrection, and the lyfe: He that beleueth on me, yea, though he were dead, yet shall he lyue.
  • John 5:26 : 26 For as the father hath lyfe in hym selfe: so lykewyse hath he geuen to the sonne, to haue lyfe in hym selfe:
  • John 12:46 : 46 I am come a lyght into ye worlde, that whosoeuer beleueth on me, should not byde in darknesse.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Iesus sayth vnto hym: I am the way, and the trueth, and the lyfe. No man cometh vnto the father, but by me.
  • John 9:5 : 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the tydynges whiche we haue hearde of hym & declare vnto you, that God is lyght, & in hym is no darkenesse at all. 6 If we saye that we haue felowship with hym, and walke in darkenesse, we lye, and do not the trueth. 7 But and yf we walke in light, euen as he is in lyght, then haue we felowship one with another, and the blood of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all sinne.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he sayth: Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the dead, and Christe shall geue thee lyght.
  • John 12:35 : 35 Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Yet a litle while is the light with you. Walke while ye haue light, lest the darknesse come on you: For he that walketh in the darke, wotteth not whither he goeth.
  • 1 John 5:11 : 11 And this is the recorde, how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe, and this lyfe, is in his sonne.
  • Col 3:4 : 4 When soeuer Christe which is our life, shall appeare, then shall ye also appeare with hym in glorie.
  • John 1:8-9 : 8 He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght. 9 That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Through ye tender mercy of our God, wherby the day spryng from an hygh hath visited vs. 79 To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace.
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 A light to be reuealed to the gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 The people, which sate in darknesse, sawe great lyght: And to them whiche sate in the region and shadowe of death, lyght is sprong vp.
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I the Lorde haue called thee in righteousnesse, and wyll holde thee by the hande, and wyll also defende thee, and geue thee for a couenaunt of the people, to be the light of the gentiles. 7 That thou mayest open the eyes of the blinde, let out the prisoners from their bondes, and them that sit in darknesse out of the dungeon house.
  • Acts 26:23 : 23 That Christe shoulde suffer, and that he shoulde be the first that shoulde ryse from the dead, and shoulde shewe lyght vnto the people, and to the gentiles.
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 As it is also written: The first man Adam was made a lyuyng soule, and the last Adam was made a quickenyng spirite.
  • 1 John 1:2 : 2 (And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.)
  • Rev 22:16 : 16 I Iesus sent myne angell, to testifie vnto you these thynges in ye Churches. I am the roote and the generation of Dauid, and the bryght mornyng starre.
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he shewed me a pure ryuer of water of lyfe, cleare as Cristall, proceadyng out of the throne of god, and of the lambe.
  • John 5:21 : 21 For lykewyse as the father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so, the sonne quickeneth whom he wyll.
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 But to you that feare my name shall that sunne of righteousnesse aryse, and health shalbe vnder his winges: and ye shall go foorth and skippe lyke fatte calues.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For God the Lorde is a sunne and a shielde: God geueth grace and worship, he withholdeth no good thyng from them that liue in any perfection.
  • Isa 35:4-5 : 4 Say vnto them that are of a fearfull heart, be of good cheare and feare not, beholde your God commeth to take vengeaunce, and you shall see the rewarde that God geueth: God commeth his owne selfe, and wyll delyuer you. 5 Then shall the eyes of the blynde be lyghtened, and the eares of the deaffe opened.
  • Ps 60:1-3 : 1 To the chiefe musition vpon Susan Eduth, a golden psalme of Dauid, for to teache: (made) when he fought against Mesopotamia and Syria of Stobah, and when Ioab turned backe and slue twelue thousande Edomites in the salt valley.) O Lorde thou hast cast vs out, thou hast dispearsed vs, thou art displeased: O turne thee vnto vs agayne. 2 Thou hast made the land to tremble, thou hast cleft it asunder: heale the breaches therof, for it is redy to fall downe. 3 Thou hast made thy people see heauie thinges: thou hast geuen vs wyne to drinke, that maketh vs tremble.

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  • John 1:5-11
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    5And the lyght shyneth in darkenesse: and the darknesse comprehended it not.

    6There was a man sent from God, whose name was Iohn:

    7The same came for a witnesse, to beare witnesse of the lyght, that all men through hym myght beleue.

    8He was not that lyght: but was sent to beare witnesse of the lyght.

    9That lyght was the true lyght, which lyghteth euery man that commeth into the worlde.

    10He was in the worlde, and the worlde was made by hym, and the worlde knewe hym not.

    11He came among his owne, and his owne receaued hym not.

  • John 1:1-3
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    1In the begynnyng was the worde, & the worde was with God: and that worde was God.

    2The same was in the begynnyng with God.

    3All thynges were made by it: and without it, was made nothyng that was made.

  • 1 John 1:1-6
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    1That whiche was fro the beginning, whiche we haue heard, which we haue seene with our eyes, whiche we haue loked vpo, & our handes haue handeled of, the worde of lyfe:

    2(And the lyfe appeared, and we haue seene, and beare witnesse, and shewe vnto you that eternall lyfe which was with the father, and appeared vnto vs.)

    3That which we haue seene and heard declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue felowship with vs, and that our felowship may be with the father, and his sonne Iesus Christe.

    4And this write we vnto you, that your ioy may be full,

    5And this is the tydynges whiche we haue hearde of hym & declare vnto you, that God is lyght, & in hym is no darkenesse at all.

    6If we saye that we haue felowship with hym, and walke in darkenesse, we lye, and do not the trueth.

  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1In the beginnyng GOD created ye heauen and the earth.

    2And the earth was without fourme, and was voyde: & darknes was vpon the face of the deepe, and the spirite of God moued vpon the face of the waters.

    3And God sayde, let there be light: and there was light.

    4And God sawe the lyght that it was good: and God deuided the lyght from the darknes.

    5And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

  • John 1:13-15
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    13Which were borne, not of blood, nor of the wyll of the fleshe, nor yet of the wyll of man, but of God.

    14And the same word became fleshe, and dwelt among vs ( and we sawe the glory of it, as the glory of the only begotten sonne of the father) full of grace and trueth.

    15Iohn beareth witnesse of hym, and cryeth, saying: This was he of whom I spake, he that commeth after me, is preferred before me, for he was before me.

  • Col 1:15-17
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    15Who is the image of the inuisible God, the first borne of all creatures.

    16For by him were all thinges created, that are in heaue and that are in earth, visible and inuisible, whether they be maiestie or lordeshippe, either rule or power: All thynges were created by hym and for hym.

    17And he is before all thynges, and in hym all thynges consist.

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    12Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them, saying, I am the light of ye world: He that foloweth me, doth not walke in darknesse, but shal haue the light of life.

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    35He was a burnyng & a shynyng lyght, and ye would for a season haue reioyced in his lyght.

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    6For it is God that commaundeth the lyght to shine out of darknesse, whiche hath shined in our heartes, for to geue the lyght of the knowledge of the glorie of God, in the face of Iesus Christe.

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    18No man hath seene God at any tyme: The onely begotten sonne which is in the bosome of the father, he hath declared hym.

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    19And this is the condempnation: that lyght is come into the worlde, and men loued darknesse rather then lyght, because their deedes were euyll.

  • Gen 1:14-15
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    14And God sayde: let there be lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they may deuide the day and the nyght, and let them be for signes, & seasons, and for dayes, and yeres.

    15And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.

  • 1 John 5:11-12
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    11And this is the recorde, how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe, and this lyfe, is in his sonne.

    12He that hath the sonne, hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of God, hath not lyfe.

  • 1 John 4:9
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    9In this appeared the loue of God to vs warde, because God sent his only begotten sonne into the worlde, that we myght lyue through hym.

  • John 11:10
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    10But yf a man walke in the nyght, he stumbleth, because there is no lyght in hym.

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    79To geue lyght to them that sitte in darknesse, and in the shadowe of death, to guide our feete into the way of peace.

  • Matt 4:16
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    16The people, which sate in darknesse, sawe great lyght: And to them whiche sate in the region and shadowe of death, lyght is sprong vp.

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    8Agayne, a newe commaundement I write vnto you, that is true in hym, and the same is true also in you: For the darkenesse is past, and the true lyght nowe shyneth.

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    21But he that doeth trueth, cometh to the lyght, yt his deedes may be knowen, howe that they are wrought in God.

  • John 9:5
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    5As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.

  • Ps 36:9
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    9For with thee is the fountaine of lyfe: and in thy light shall we see light.

  • John 5:26
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    26For as the father hath lyfe in hym selfe: so lykewyse hath he geuen to the sonne, to haue lyfe in hym selfe:

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17And God set them in the firmament of the heauen, to shyne vpon the earth,

    18And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good.

  • 2 Tim 1:10
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    10But is nowe made manifest by the appearyng of our sauiour Iesus Christ, who hath put away death, and hath brought life and immortalitie vnto light through the Gospell:

  • John 12:46
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    46I am come a lyght into ye worlde, that whosoeuer beleueth on me, should not byde in darknesse.

  • Isa 9:2
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    2The people that walked in darknesse, haue seene a great light: As for them that dwell in the lande of the shadowe of death, vpon them hath the light shined.