- 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.
- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
- And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
- Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power.
- For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.
- Trust in the Lord, and do good;
so you will live in the land, and enjoy security. - It is better to take refuge in the Lord
than to put confidence in mortals. - The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.
- Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth. - Take delight in the Lord,
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Our God is in the heavens;
he does whatever he pleases.We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. And this is the boldness we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.Next verse!With image