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1-2 Before anything else existed,[a] there was Christ, with God. He has always been alive and is himself God. He created everything there is—nothing exists that he didn’t make. Eternal life is in him, and this life gives light to all mankind.

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  1. John 1:1 Before anything else existed, literally, “In the beginning.” Christ, literally, “the Word,” meaning Christ, the wisdom and power of God and the first cause of all things; God’s personal expression of himself to men.

He was with God in the beginning.(A) Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.(B) In him was life,(C) and that life was the light(D) of all mankind.

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