John 1:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

In him was life, and the life was the light of men,

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  • John 8:12 : 12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'
  • John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said to her, `I am the rising again, and the life; he who is believing in me, even if he may die, shall live;
  • John 5:26 : 26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,
  • John 12:46 : 46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
  • John 9:5 : 5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'
  • 1 John 1:5-7 : 5 And this is the message that we have heard from Him, and announce to you, that God is light, and darkness in Him is not at all; 6 if we may say -- `we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk -- we lie, and do not the truth; 7 and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light -- we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 wherefore he saith, `Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'
  • John 12:35 : 35 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time is the light with you; walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; and he who is walking in the darkness hath not known where he goeth;
  • 1 John 5:11 : 11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son;
  • Col 3:4 : 4 when the Christ -- our life -- may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.
  • John 1:8-9 : 8 that one was not the Light, but -- that he might testify about the Light. 9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;
  • Luke 1:78-79 : 78 Through the tender mercies of our God, In which the rising from on high did look upon us, 79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'
  • Matt 4:16 : 16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'
  • Isa 42:6-7 : 6 I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations. 7 To open the eyes of the blind, To bring forth from prison the bound one, From the house of restraint those sitting in darkness.
  • Acts 26:23 : 23 that the Christ is to suffer, whether first by a rising from the dead, he is about to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.'
  • 1 Cor 15:45 : 45 so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit,
  • 1 John 1:2 : 2 and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --
  • Rev 22:16 : 16 `I, Jesus did send my messenger to testify to you these things concerning the assemblies; I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star!
  • Rev 22:1 : 1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, bright as crystal, going forth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb:
  • John 5:21 : 21 `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;
  • Isa 42:16 : 16 And I have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These `are' the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.
  • Mal 4:2 : 2 And risen to you, ye who fear My name, Hath the sun of righteousness -- and healing in its wings, And ye have gone forth, and have increased as calves of a stall.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 For a sun and a shield `is' Jehovah God, Grace and honour doth Jehovah give. He withholdeth not good To those walking in uprightness.
  • Isa 35:4-5 : 4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.' 5 Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,
  • Ps 60:1-3 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us. 2 Thou hast caused the land to tremble, Thou hast broken it, Heal its breaches, for it hath moved. 3 Thou hast shewn Thy people a hard thing, Thou hast caused us to drink wine of trembling.

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    5 and the light in the darkness did shine, and the darkness did not perceive it.

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    9 He was the true Light, which doth enlighten every man, coming to the world;

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    1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God;

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    1 That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --

    2 and the Life was manifested, and we have seen, and do testify, and declare to you the Life, the age-during, which was with the Father, and was manifested to us --

    3 that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship `is' with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

    4 and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

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  • Gen 1:1-5
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    1 In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth --

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    13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.

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  • Col 1:15-17
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    15 who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

    16 because in him were the all things created, those in the heavens, and those upon the earth, those visible, and those invisible, whether thrones, whether lordships, whether principalities, whether authorities; all things through him, and for him, have been created,

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    12 Again, therefore, Jesus spake to them, saying, `I am the light of the world; he who is following me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the light of the life.'

  • John 5:35
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    35 he was the burning and shining lamp, and ye did will to be glad, for an hour, in his light.

  • 2 Cor 4:6
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    6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

  • John 1:18
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    18 God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.

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    11 and this is the testimony, that life age-during did God give to us, and this -- the life -- is in His Son;

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    9 In this was manifested the love of God in us, because His Son -- the only begotten -- hath God sent to the world, that we may live through him;

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    10 and if any one may walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.'

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    79 To give light to those sitting in darkness and death-shade, To guide our feet to a way of peace.'

  • Matt 4:16
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    16 the people that is sitting in darkness saw a great light, and to those sitting in a region and shadow of death -- light arose to them.'

  • 1 John 2:8
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    8 again, a new command I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness doth pass away, and the true light doth now shine;

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    21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

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    5 when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

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    9 For with Thee `is' a fountain of life, In Thy light we see light.

  • John 5:26
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    26 for, as the Father hath life in himself, so He gave also to the Son to have life in himself,

  • Gen 1:17-18
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    17 and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,

    18 and to rule over day and over night, and to make a separation between the light and the darkness; and God seeth that `it is' good;

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    10 and was made manifest now through the manifestation of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who indeed did abolish death, and did enlighten life and immortality through the good news,

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    46 I a light to the world have come, that every one who is believing in me -- in the darkness may not remain;

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    2 The people who are walking in darkness Have seen a great light, Dwellers in a land of death-shade, Light hath shone upon them.