⁸ But what does it say? ^(A)“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):

¹⁷ So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:

The Eternal Word^(A)

1 In the beginning ^(B)was the Word, and the ^(C)Word was ^(D)with God, and the Word was ^(E)God. ^2 (F)He was in the beginning with God. ^3 (G)All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ^4 (H)In Him was life, and ^(I)the life was the light of men. ⁵ And ^(J)the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not ^[a]comprehend it.

⁷ This man came for a ^(A)witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might ^(B)believe.

^9 (A)That^[a] was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ^(A)“I am the light of the world. He who ^(B)follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

^46 (A)I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.