Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in John 1:1

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

John 1:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in John 1:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of John 1. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Genesis 1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
  • John 17:5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
  • Revelation 19:13And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.
  • Colossians 1:17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
  • John 1:14And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
  • 1 John 1:1That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;
  • Revelation 22:13I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
  • John 1:2The same was in the beginning with God.
  • Revelation 1:8I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
  • John 10:30I and my Father are one.
  • Proverbs 8:22The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
  • Philippians 2:6Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
  • Matthew 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
  • Isaiah 9:6For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father…

More to meet God in John

John 3:16John 14:6John 8:32John 10:10John 16:33John 11:25John 13:34John 3:17John 1:12John 14:27John 13:7John 15:13John 15:5John 14:26

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.