John 1:9-13

For God loved His creation so much that from the beginning of life they decided that the only begotten Son of God would be born to die for them. No greater love has any man than to willingly give up His life in place of ours. This precious gift is given to every person born into this world… it is up to us to decide to accept or reject the salvation of Jesus Christ.

That was the true Light which, coming into the world, gives light to every man. Jesus became man in order to reveal the truth to all people. By believing, undeserving sinners can become full members of God’s family.

Each person must individually trust Jesus Christ for eternal life. It is a gift to be received, not a reward achieved through any human effort.

the Word (Gk. ho logos) (1:1; 1 John 1:1; Rev. 19:13) Strong’s #3056: This Greek word was used to speak of the principle of the universe, even the creative energy that generated the universe. The term logos may also have some connection with the OT presentation of Wisdom as a personification or attribute of God (see Prov. 8). In both the Jewish conception and the Greek, the Logos was associated with the idea of beginnings—the world began through the origination and instrumentality of the Word (Gen. 1:3). John may have had these ideas in mind, but more likely he used this word in a new way to identify the Son of God as divine. He is the image of the invisible God (Col. 1:15), the express image of God’s substance (Heb. 1:3). In the Godhead, the Son functions as the Revealer of God and is God in reality.

John 1:9-13

⁹ That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

¹⁰ He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. ¹¹ He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

¹² But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: ¹³ who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

⁶ Indeed He says, ‘It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, That You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth.’ ” 

Isaiah 49:6

⁶ yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live. 

1 Corinthians 8:6

¹⁶ For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 

Colossians 1:16

² has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 

Hebrews 1:2

²⁶ For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. 

Galatians 3:26

²³  having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible,through the word of God which lives and abides forever, 

1 Peter 1:23