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John 1:16

Now we have all received from His fullness, yes, grace upon grace.

Family 35 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

15John testified about Him and called out saying: “ This is He of whom I said, ‘The One coming after me is now ahead of me, because He existed before I did.’”

17Because the Law was given through Moses; the Grace and the Truth came through Jesus Christ.

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Cross References

Matthew 3:11“I baptize you with water unto repentance, but the One coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with Holy Spirit.

Matthew 13:12For whoever has, to him more will be given and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

John 3:34For He whom God sent speaks God's words, because God does not give the Spirit by measure.

Acts 3:12So upon observing this Peter responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you marveling at this, or why are you staring at us as if we have made him walk by our own power or godliness?

Romans 5:17Further, if by the offense of the one man death reigned through that man, much more will those who receive the abundance of the grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:9You, however, are not ‘in flesh’ but ‘in Spirit’, if indeed God's Spirit dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.

Matthew Henry on John 1:16-19

John's Testimony to Christ. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. In these verses, I. The evangelist begins again to give us John Baptist's testimony… Read the whole commentary →

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