Key Events
The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
The same was in the beginning with God.
We know that the Son of God has come, and has given us an understanding, that we know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
concerning his Son, who was born of the offspring of David according to the flesh,
Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this: After his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,
I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit who confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God,
to a virgin pledged to be married to a man whose name was Joseph, of David’s house. The virgin’s name was Mary.
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
By this God’s love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.
For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.