The connection of the day

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Two verses, written centuries apart, holding the same thread. John 1:1 carries 292,374 of them. The app is built on them.