In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has never understood it.
He spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets of old—
We shall have salvation from our enemies,
And from the hand of all who hate us;
To show mercy toward our fathers,
And to remember His Holy Covenant,
The oath which He swore to our fathers,
To grant us that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies,
Might serve Him without fear,
In holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.