John 1:17
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
KJV
ὅτι ὁ νόμος διὰ Μωϋσέως ἐδόθη, ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐγένετο.
Greek NT
quia lex per Moysen data est, gratia et veritas per Jesum Christum facta est.
Vulgate
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
ASV
For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Μωσεύς
moseus
noun · 81×
Χριστός
christos
noun · 530×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
χάρις
charis
noun · 155×
ἀλήθεια
aletheia
noun · 109×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 2 passages
§1996Our justification comes from the grace of God. Grace is favor, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life.46
§2787When we say "our" Father, we recognize first that all his promises of love announced by the prophets are fulfilled in the new and eternal covenant in his Christ: we have become "his" people and he is henceforth "our" God. This new relationship is the purely gratuitous gift of belonging to each other: we are to respond to "grace and truth" given us in Jesus Christ with love and …
1. I said the other day, that John, to resolve the doubts of those who should question with themselves how the Lord, though He came after to the preaching, became before and more glorious than he, added, for He was before me. And this is indeed one reason. But not content with this, he adds again a second, which now he declares. What is it? And of his fullness, says he, have al…
1. Our Lord Jesus Christ calls His coming in the flesh an exodus [or going out]: as when He says, The sower went out to sow. Matthew 13:3 And again, I went out from the Father, and have come. John 16:28 And in many places one may see this. But Paul calls it an [eisodus or] coming in, saying, And when again He brings in the First-Begotten into the world, meaning by this Bringing…
60. (9.) Moreover the words 'He has become surety' denote the pledge in our behalf which He has provided. For as, being the 'Word,' He 'became flesh John 1:14 ' and 'become' we ascribe to the flesh, for it is originated and created, so do we here the expression 'He has become,' expounding it according to a second sense, viz. because He has become man. And let these contentious …
Summa Theologica · 3 passages
Is God alone the efficient cause of grace? Is any disposition towards grace needed on the part of the recipient, by an act of free-will? Can such a disposition make grace follow of necessity? Is grace equal in all? May anyone know that he has grace? Article 1. Whether God alone is the cause of grace? Objection 1. It would seem that God alone is not the cause of grace. For it is…
Did the union of the Word Incarnate take place in the nature? Did it take place in the Person? Did it take place in the suppositum or hypostasis? Is the Person or hypostasis of Christ composite after the Incarnation? Did any union of body and soul take place in Christ? Was the human nature united to the Word accidentally? Is the union itself something created? Is it the same as…
Was the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God, sanctified before her birth from the womb? Was she sanctified before animation? Was the fomes of sin entirely taken away from her in virtue of this sanctification? Was the result of this sanctification that she never sinned? In virtue of this sanctification, did she receive the fulness of grace? Was it proper to her to be thus sanctified? …
The Gospel is opposed to the law. For the law works wrath and announces the curse, but the Gospel preaches grace and blessing. John says: "For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." Yet it is most certain that those who were before the law and under the law, were not altogether destitute of the Gospel. For they had extraordinary evangelical…
Cross-references
- 1Thess 5:24 — Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
- 1Tim 3:15 — But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
- 2Cor 1:20 — For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
- 2Cor 3:7 — But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glo
- 2Cor 3:8 — How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
- 2Kgs 23:25 — And like unto him was there no king before him, that turned to the LORD with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his might, according to all the law of Moses; neither after him arose th
- 2Sam 15:20 — Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
- Acts 3:22 — For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.
- Acts 7:38 — This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- Acts 7:38 — This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- Acts 13:34 — And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.
- Acts 13:39 — And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
- Acts 28:23 — And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, a
- Col 2:17 — Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
- Deut 4:44 — And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
- Deut 5:1 — And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
- Deut 32:4 — He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- Deut 33:4 — Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
- Deut 33:4 — Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
- Eph 1:13 — In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
- Eph 4:21 — If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
- Exod 20:1 — And God spake all these words, saying,
- Exod 34:6 — And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
- Gal 3:10 — For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
- Gal 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
- Gal 3:17 — And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
- Gal 3:19 — Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
- Gen 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- Gen 22:18 — And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
- Heb 1:2 — Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
- Heb 3:5 — And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
- Heb 8:8 — For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
- Heb 9:22 — And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
- Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
- Heb 11:39 — And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:
- Isa 65:16 — That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and bec
- John 1:14 — And 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.
- John 4:23 — But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
- John 5:45 — Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye trust.
- John 7:19 — Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?