¹⁵ be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

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

² this one was in the beginning with God;

³ all things through him did happen, and without him happened not even one thing that hath happened.

⁴ In him was life, and the life was the light of men,

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

⁶ There came a man -- having been sent from God -- whose name `is' John,

⁷ this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;

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;

¹⁰ in the world he was, and the world through him was made, and the world did not know him:

¹¹ to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;

¹² but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name,

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

¹⁴ And the Word became flesh, and did tabernacle among us, and we beheld his glory, glory as of an only begotten of a father, full of grace and truth.

¹⁵ John doth testify concerning him, and hath cried, saying, `This was he of whom I said, He who after me is coming, hath come before me, for he was before me;'

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

³ already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

¹³⁰ The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple.

⁴ But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

¹² for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;