John 1:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

New Living Translation
For the law was given through Moses, but God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ.

English Standard Version
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Berean Study Bible
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

New American Standard Bible
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

NASB 1995
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

NASB 1977
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Amplified Bible
For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Christian Standard Bible
for the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for the law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Contemporary English Version
The Law was given by Moses, but Jesus Christ brought us undeserved kindness and truth.

Good News Translation
God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Teachings were given through Moses, but kindness and truth came into existence through Jesus Christ.

International Standard Version
because while the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus the Messiah.

NET Bible
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

New King James Version
For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

King James 2000 Bible
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

New Heart English Bible
For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

World English Bible
For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

American King James Version
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

American Standard Version
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

A Faithful Version
For the law was given through Moses, and the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

Darby Bible Translation
For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

English Revised Version
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For the Lawe was giuen by Moses, but grace, and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For the lawe was geuen by Moyses: but grace and trueth came by Iesus Christe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For the lawe was geuen by Moses, grace and trueth came by Iesus Christ.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For the lawe was geven by Moses but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for the Law was given through Moses, the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

Berean Literal Bible
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Young's Literal Translation
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;

Smith's Literal Translation
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

Catholic Public Domain Version
For the law was given though Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For The Law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Yeshua The Messiah.

Lamsa Bible
For the law was given by Moses; but truth and grace came into being by Jesus Christ.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
for the law was given through Moses, but the grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.

Godbey New Testament
Because the law was given by Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Haweis New Testament
For the law was given by Moses, but the grace and the reality came by Jesus Christ.

Mace New Testament
the law indeed was delivered by Moses, but grace and truth was the dispensation of Jesus Christ.

Weymouth New Testament
For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Worrell New Testament
because the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Worsley New Testament
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ:
















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