10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Glory of God
• Incarnation
• Kingship of Christ
• Name of God

• Full Deity of the Son · major
• Preincarnate Appearances of Christ

12 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 1:1 — That 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;
• Col 1:17 — And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
• Col 1:17 — And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
• Exod 3:14 — And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
• Exod 3:14 — And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
• Exod 6:3 — And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
• Heb 1:10 — And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:
• Heb 13:8 — Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
• Isa 9:6 — For 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, The Prin
• Isa 42:8 — I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
• Isa 43:13 — Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• Isa 43:13 — Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
• Isa 44:6 — Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
• Isa 44:8 — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
• Isa 46:9 — Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
• Isa 48:12 — Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
• John 1:1 — In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 1:15 — John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
• John 5:18 — Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
• John 8:18 — I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.
• John 8:34 — Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
• John 8:51 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
• John 10:25 — Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
• John 10:30 — I and my Father are one.
• John 13:19 — Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
• John 17:5 — And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• John 17:5 — And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
• John 17:24 — Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• Matt 18:20 — For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
• Matt 22:45 — If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?
• Mic 5:2 — But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, f
• Phil 2:6 — Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
• Prov 8:22 — The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
• Ps 102:27 — But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
• Rev 1:8 — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
• Rev 1:11 — Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, an
• Rev 1:17 — And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
• Rev 2:8 — And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;
• Zech 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little one