For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

In the beginning was the word ( Jesus Christ), and the word was with God, and the word was God. He (Jesus Christ) was in the beginning with God. All the things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made.