1 태초에 말씀이 계시니라 이 말씀이 하나님과 함께 계셨으니 이 말씀은 곧 하나님이시니라
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
 
2 그가 태초에 하나님과 함께 계셨고
He was with God in the beginning.
 
3 만물이 그로 말미암아 지은 바 되었으니 지은 것이 하나도 그가 없이는 된 것이 없느니라
Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
  
4 그 안에 생명이 있었으니 이 생명은 사람들의 빛이라
In him was life, and that life was the light of men.
  
5 빛이 어둠에 비치되 어둠이 깨닫지 못하더라
The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.
  
6 하나님께로부터 보내심을 받은 사람이 있으니 그의 이름은 요한이라
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John.
  
7 그가 증언하러 왔으니 곧 빛에 대하여 증언하고 모든 사람이 자기로 말미암아 믿게 하려 함이라
He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe.
  
8 그는 이 빛이 아니요 이 빛에 대하여 증언하러 온 자라
He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
  
9 참 빛 곧 세상에 와서 각 사람에게 비추는 빛이 있었나니
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
  
10 그가 세상에 계셨으며 세상은 그로 말미암아 지은 바 되었으되 세상이 그를 알지 못하였고
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.
  
11 자기 땅에 오매 자기 백성이 영접하지 아니하였으나
He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
  
12 영접하는 자 곧 그 이름을 믿는 자들에게는 하나님의 자녀가 되는 권세를 주셨으니
Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-
  
13 이는 혈통으로나 육정으로나 사람의 뜻으로 나지 아니하고 오직 하나님께로부터 난 자들이니라
children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.