“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good.

For the Lord, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth.

There is none like you, O Lord; you are great, and your name is great in might.

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King.

To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.