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 1:16, 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 web of Scripture around it
Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 12 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.
- Colossians 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
- Romans 5:2
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
- Ephesians 2:5
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
- Colossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
- Ephesians 4:7
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
- Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
- Ephesians 1:23
Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
- Romans 5:17
For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life…
- 1 Corinthians 1:4
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
- Ephesians 1:6
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
- John 3:34
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
- Colossians 2:3
In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
More to meet God in John
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.