John 1:16

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.”

— WEB

“And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”

— KJV

“For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Grace

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Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Colossians 1:19 "For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him;"
Romans 5:2 "through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God."
Ephesians 2:5-10 "even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),"
Ephesians 4:7-13 "But to each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ."
Colossians 2:9-10 "For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,"
Ephesians 3:19 "and to know Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Ephesians 1:23 "which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all."
Romans 5:17 "For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the g…"

Commentary

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. (Joh 1:16-18) of his fulness--of "grace and truth," resuming the thread of Joh 1:14. grace for grace--that is, grace upon grace (so all the best interpreters), in successive communications and larger measures, as each was able to take it in. Observe, the word "truth" is here dropped. "Grace" being the chosen New Testament word for the whole fulness of the new covenant, all that dwells in Christ for men.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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