¹⁵ Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

³⁵ Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

² Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;

⁶³ The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

¹ From the first he was the Word, and the Word was in relation with God and was God.

² This Word was from the first in relation with God.

³ All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.

⁴ What came into existence in him was life, and the life was the light of men.

⁵ And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

⁶ There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

⁷ He came for witness, to give witness about the light, so that all men might have faith through him.

⁸ He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.

⁹ The true light, which gives light to every man, was then coming into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, the world which came into being through him, but the world had no knowledge of him.

¹¹ He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

¹² To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name:

¹³ Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

¹⁴ And so the Word became flesh and took a place among us for a time; and we saw his glory--such glory as is given to an only son by his father--saw it to be true and full of grace.

¹⁵ John gave witness about him, crying, This is he of whom I said, He who is coming after me is put over me because he was in existence before me.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

³ You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

¹³⁰ The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.

⁴ But he made answer and said, It is in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need, but every word which comes out of the mouth of God.

¹² For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.