John 17:5

For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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.

He is clothed in a garment sprinkled with blood. His name is called “The Word of God.”

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

The beast that you saw was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss and to go into destruction. Those who dwell on the earth and whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel when they see that the beast was, and is not, and shall be present.

The same was in the beginning with God.

He who overcomes will be arrayed in white garments, and I will in no way blot his name out of the book of life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows the Son, except the Father; neither does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son desires to reveal him.

Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”

He who sees me sees him who sent me.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

“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.”

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

looking for the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”

For this cause therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

For there are three who testify:

Yet now, if you will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out of your book which you have written.”

Who has ascended up into heaven, and descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has bound the waters in his garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name, if you know?

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.”

yet to 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 we live through him.

But we all, with unveiled face seeing the glory of the Lord as in a mirror, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the Spirit.

“To the angel of the assembly in Smyrna write: “The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life says these things:

Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

This is what Yahweh, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Yahweh of Armies, says: “I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.

Yahweh, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “I am Yahweh your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way that you should go.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophet, saying, “I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things hidden from the foundation of the world.”

“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’

If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on, you know him, and have seen him.”

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of 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.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. He laid his right hand on me, saying, “Don’t be afraid. I am the first and the last,

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.

Now this, “He ascended”, what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?

For in him all the fullness of the Deity dwells bodily,

has at the end of these days spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom also he made the worlds.

but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.

So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

‘For in him we live, move, and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also his offspring.’

He alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.

He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.

Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.

who, existing in the form of God, didn’t consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,

You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

John testified about him. He cried out, saying, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.’ ”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared him.

Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say that he is our God.

I and the Father are one.”

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”

His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,

His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Turning to the disciples, he said, “All things have been delivered to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whomever the Son desires to reveal him.”

No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended out of heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven.

But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.

Jesus said to them, “Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, I AM.”

His disciples didn’t understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him, and that they had done these things to him.

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

A little while, and you will not see me. Again a little while, and you will see me.”

I came from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.”

Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name,

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.

And, “You, Lord, in the beginning, laid the foundation of the earth. The heavens are the works of your hands.

who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.