- In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father.
- For this is the message you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
- And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as it had upon us at the beginning.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge;
fools despise wisdom and instruction. - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. - Who has performed and done this,
calling the generations from the beginning?
I, the Lord, am first,
and will be with the last. - The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight. - He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all those who practice it have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever. - Everyone who commits sin is a child of the devil; for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The Son of God was revealed for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.
- He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
- In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters.
- You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
- But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
- He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
- For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
- “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.
- Who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began.
- The sum of your word is truth;
and every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever. - Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God. - For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”
But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.” For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.Next verse!With image