John 1:17 · KJV
“For the law was given by Moses, {but} grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”
— John 1:17
And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared {him}.
John 1 — Context
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.
16And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
17For the law was given by Moses, {but} grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
18No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared {him}.
19And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
Cross References
Romans 6:14
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Romans 5:20-21
Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
Romans 3:19-26
Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. {guilty...: or, subject to the judgment of God}
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.
Hebrews 9:22
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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?