John 1:16
14 The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 John testified concerning Him. He cried out, saying, “This is He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because He was before me.’”
From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.
- KJV
- And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
- WEB
- From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.
- ASV
- For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.
- DARBY
- for of his fulness we all have received, and grace upon grace.
- BLB
- For from His fullness we all received also grace upon grace.
- ÅB
- For av hans fylde har vi alle fått, og det nåde over nåde;
- OTB
- Av hans fylde har vi alle mottatt nåde over nåde.
- B1930
- For av hans fylde har vi alle fått, og det nåde over nåde;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Colossians 1:19
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him,
Read in contextRomans 5:2
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
Read in contextEphesians 2:5–10
made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in our trespasses. It is by grace you have been saved!
Read in contextEphesians 4:7–13
Now to each one of us grace has been given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
Read in contextColossians 2:9–10
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity dwells in bodily form.
Read in contextEphesians 3:19
of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Read in contextEphesians 1:23
which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Read in contextRomans 5:17
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive an abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!
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